Top 25 Quotes by Ann Demeulemeester

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.

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

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

I always followed my own path.

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

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

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.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

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.