Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.
My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
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.
As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
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.
I've always done things my way.
I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.
Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.
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.
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.
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.
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.
I always followed my own path.
I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.
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.
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.
It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.
