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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls. Olivier Theyskens

Girl Kind Obsessed Cool

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control. Olivier Theyskens

Control Sense Intuition Mix Intellectual Designing

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked. Olivier Theyskens

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. Olivier Theyskens

Moon Doctors Other Dreamt Boy Becoming Going Wanted To The Moon Designer

It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa. Olivier Theyskens

Work Time Me You Clothes Think Dress Something Dated Like Look Make Because Lot Times Same Going Same Time Different Want Interesting Them Scrutinize Grandpa Unique Vintage

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. Olivier Theyskens

You World Will Think Thread Pretension Something Disappear Because Making Couture Die Should Conquer Start Need Needle

I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look. Olivier Theyskens

Work Time Sometimes Made Girl Important Believe Dress Dresses Wedding Propose ID Know Look Revealed Very Shock Shocked Person Same Same Time Should Many Suddenly Designer

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man

Death Name Linguistic Predicament Displaced

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. Paul de Man

Nature Writing Own Considered Follows Both Denies Ambivalence After Cannot Process Which Act Interpretive Coincide

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Paul de Man

More Tenacious Facts Metaphors Than Much

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. Paul de Man

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. Peter Paul Rubens

Courage Vast Talent Undertaking However Size Ever

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary. Raf Simons

Me Evolution Evolving Always Things Designer Necessary

Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people. Raf Simons

Life Time Home You People Free Big Calm Every Constantly Minute Small Weekend Free Time Highway Like Because Big Company Surrounded Jump Different Anywhere Bike Different Life Whole Company Need

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity. Raf Simons

Become Bit Over Years Publicity Shy Basis

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander. Raf Simons

Beginning Been Conscious

In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was. Raf Simons

You Woman People Saw Nineties See Martin Through Knew She Common Themselves Who Expressed Street Her Designer

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