Words matter. These are the best Raf Simons Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
I’m not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer – the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, ‘What should I do now?’ It doesn’t work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn’t know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn’t really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don’t need 200 different beauties.
I’m fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
People who don’t know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don’t feel it that way. It’s not what attracts me.
Unlike fashion, art isn’t applied. It doesn’t have to serve anybody. It doesn’t have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Fashion is such an octopus. You’re connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
I’m shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
I’m usually very attracted to things that I can’t define. If something’s too clear, it’s very often not inspiring to me anymore.
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn’t make me think any more. It doesn’t make me dream.
I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.
My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
I don’t have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It’s probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it’s about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn’t really feel like a job, either: it’s a dream or a passion or something.
I like very much to put on fashion shows.
I’d like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed – the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.
I’m very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
There’s a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it’s their own choice. In fashion, designers don’t have that choice.
There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they’re in shock.
Every weekend, I’m on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It’s a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it’s so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there’s free time because when you’re at a big company, you’re constantly surrounded by 30 people.