Ann Demeulemeester

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

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.

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.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.