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Ann Demeulemeester [1959-0] Belgian
Rank: 105
Designer, Fashion Designer


Ann Demeulemeester is a fashion designer whose eponymous label Ann Demeulemeester is mainly showcased at the annual Paris Fashion Week. She is one of Antwerp Six in the fashion industry.

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Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. Music
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I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
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For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.
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Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.
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I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
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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.
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Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.
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My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
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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.
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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.
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I've always done things my way.
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I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.
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Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
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Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.
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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.
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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.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.
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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.
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I always followed my own path.
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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.
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As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.
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I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.
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It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.
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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.
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