Quotes from Ann Demeulemeester


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Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.


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.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


I've always done things my way.


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


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


I always followed my own path.


For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.


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


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


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.


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


I can make 10 jackets of the same colour, same two pockets and same length, that will look like 10 completely different jackets when you put them on. It's about the way they are cut - it makes them look and feel completely different and move differently, and that's a never-ending study. People who wear my clothes will know exactly what I mean.


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.