Raf Simons Quotes

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

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.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

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.

I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.