Jonathan Anderson Quotes
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I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.
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When I was a kid, I remember the fear of going into big brand stores. You didn't want to go in because you felt like you couldn't afford anything.
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I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.
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I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash.
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I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.
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Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.
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Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.
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In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it.
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When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer.
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I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company.
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The minute you can be predicted, as a brand, you've got a problem.
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I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
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The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.'
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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.
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I believe that collaboration is one of the most important things in any field.
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I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it 'nice.'
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Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.
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I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.
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Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic.
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The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.
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If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.
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I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years.
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I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.
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I think, in history, everything is about the remix.