Quotes by Dries van Noten

About Dries van Noten:

Dries Van Noten is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand. In 2005, the New York Times described him as "one of fashion's most cerebral designers". His style is said to be "eccentric", and fell out of favor during the long period of minimalistic fashion in the early 1990s, only to make a come back towards the mid-2000s, culminating with Van Noten's winning of the International Award of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2008. That same year, he dressed actress Cate Blanchett for the Academy Awards, and has continued to dress her for other red carpet events since then.
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To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

Dries van Noten

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Dries van Noten

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Dries van Noten

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.

Dries van Noten

I try to be as independent as possible.

Dries van Noten

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.

Dries van Noten

I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Dries van Noten

For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.

Dries van Noten

I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.

Dries van Noten

When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full.

Dries van Noten

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the ...

Dries van Noten

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

Dries van Noten

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and....

Dries van Noten

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

Dries van Noten

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

Dries van Noten

Author Bio

  • NameDries van Noten
  • DescriptionBelgian fashion designer
  • BornMay 12, 1958
  • CountryBelgium
  • ProfessionFashion Designer