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Jonathan Anderson

Irish Designer

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Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me. Jonathan Anderson

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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine. Jonathan Anderson

Mine Furniture Able Make Always Been Fantasy

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information. Jonathan Anderson

Me Creative Creative Process Giant Information Process

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness. Jonathan Anderson

You Try Slightly Find Able Uncomfortable Doing Newness Moments

When I do a fashion show, it's not done until it exits out of the door. Jonathan Anderson

Fashion Out Until Done Door Show Fashion Show

Loewe should be a cultural brand. Jonathan Anderson

Cultural Brand Should

Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process. Jonathan Anderson

Life People Some People Real Life Difficult Find Some Real Process Hard

I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does. Jonathan Anderson

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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. Jonathan Anderson

Dyslexic People Writing Say No Idea Part Written Idea Read Trying

I've always been massively aware of clothing. Jonathan Anderson

Massively Always Been Clothing Aware

We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown. Jonathan Anderson

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I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years. Jonathan Anderson

Collector Been Years Fan

You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal. Jonathan Anderson

Fashion History You Think About Only Through Come Always Brand Trying Personal Being Landscape Need

I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it. Jonathan Anderson

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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. Jonathan Anderson

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Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating. Jonathan Anderson

Me Very Sculptural Fascinating Things Buttons

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. Jonathan Anderson

Photography Bits Collect Some Primarily Contemporary Also

I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately. Jonathan Anderson

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.' Jonathan Anderson

I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process. Jonathan Anderson

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I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating. Jonathan Anderson

Man Difficult Think Society Ways Bizarre Find See Seeing Comprehend Between Boundary Parts Very Which Body Fascinating

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