Quotes by Ann Demeulemeester

About Ann Demeulemeester:

Ann Demeulemeester is a fashion designer whose eponymous label Ann Demeulemeester is mainly showcased at the annual Paris Fashion Week. She is one of Antwerp Six in the fashion industry.
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My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

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Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

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Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

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The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

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What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

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I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

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It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

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Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.

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I've always done things my way.

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I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.

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Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

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Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

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Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

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I always followed my own path.

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I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

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Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

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I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

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I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

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I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

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As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnn Demeulemeester
  • DescriptionBelgian fashion designer
  • BornDecember 29, 1959
  • CountryBelgium
  • ProfessionFashion Designer
  • AwardsGouden Spoel