Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

Black is not sad ... Black is poetic.

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can meet somebody in one of my jackets and it can all look a bit wrong, but also human and beautiful. Cutting nonchalance into a garment is difficult, because you can't just make an oversized or an asymmetric garment - it will look ugly. Making it look natural is delicate work. If it's too obvious, then it looks fake. Balancing the garment is a painstaking task, because you have to keep in mind how the clothes move.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

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

I just wait because I think people will find me. And I'm not the kind of person who will knock on somebody's door. I wait. If they're good for me, they will come towards me.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

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

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.

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

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.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

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.

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

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

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.

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.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

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

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

It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

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