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I collect craft. It inspires me.
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Collect
Inspires
Craft
I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.
Jonathan Anderson
Nature
Collected
John
Ideas
Pieces
Years
Represents
Ward
For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.
Jonathan Anderson
Me
You
Something
New
Scope
Normality
Experimental
Gained
Create
Ground
Play
I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.'
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion
You
Think
Finishing
Point
Return
Line
Stop
Where
Create
Full
Shows
Need
I always think the great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed. That is what is so great about shirting - it is an up-play-down-play.
Jonathan Anderson
Great
Think
About
Most
Great Thing
Always
Existed
Goes
Modern
Jeans
Functional
Ever
Garment
Thing
I believe that collaboration is one of the most important things in any field.
Jonathan Anderson
Important
Important Things
Field
Believe
Collaboration
Most
Any
The Most Important
Things
Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.
Jonathan Anderson
Amazing
Meet
Everyone
Unpredictability
Something
Learn
Another
Disciplines
Different
Creates
During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion
Culture
Luxury
Lost
Think
About
Something
Exclusive
Became
Got
Craft
Forgot
Elitist
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.
Jonathan Anderson
Work
Style
Year
Before
Took
Press
Release
Pencils
Out
Collection
Photographer
Because
Felt
Buildings
Did
Stone
Door
Work Out
Choice
Fundamentals
Started
Needed
We put something on Instagram, and it gets reposted, and it's everywhere, and a minute later it's gone, over. I don't see that as a negative thing; it's the way my mind works, too.
Jonathan Anderson
Mind
Negative
Gone
Too
Later
Way
Everywhere
See
Minute
Something
Instagram
Put
Over
Gets
Works
Thing
The minute you can be predicted, as a brand, you've got a problem.
Jonathan Anderson
You
Problem
Minute
Got
Brand
Predicted
I've realised that when fashion is really good and really challenges and takes a risk, it is incredibly artistically powerful. It makes people dream.
Jonathan Anderson
Good
Fashion
Challenges
People
Incredibly
Dream
Risk
Takes
Powerful
Makes
Realised
Really
Luxury stores are such a difficult thing because, ultimately, their purpose is to sell, but I do think you can get more out of a store.
Jonathan Anderson
You
Luxury
Difficult
Think
Out
More
Purpose
Because
Ultimately
Sell
Get
Store
Stores
Thing
Difficult Thing
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.
Jonathan Anderson
You
Rich
New
Up
Ireland
Very
Northern
Northern Ireland
Middle
Grew
Poor
Really
Nowhere
Phenomenon
I am a huge obsessor with photography.
Jonathan Anderson
Photography
Am
Huge
What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion
Important
General
Emotion
Ultimately
Imagery
Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.
Jonathan Ive
You
Car
Every
Those
Bits
Open
New
Look
New Car
Door
Meaning
Internal
The best ideas start as conversations.
Jonathan Ive
Best
Ideas
Conversations
Start
It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.
Jonathan Ive
Love
Great
You
One Thing
Find
Finding
Able
Another
Practise
What You Love
Then
Preoccupied
Thing
The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
Jonathan Ive
Nature
Creativity
Incredibly
Having
Inspiring
Ideas
Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
Jonathan Ive
Best
Focus
Important
Make
Materials
Form
Product
Include
Each
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
Ability
Magical
Something
Sort
Understand
Becomes
How
Your
Works
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Jonathan Ive
Wonderful
Benefit
UK
Making
Am
Tradition
Aware
Designing
We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.
Jonathan Ive
Better
Fluffy
Corporate
Marketing
Easy
Be Different
Something
Make
Making
Sake
Pink
Often
Different
Agenda
Harder
We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.
Jonathan Ive
Ugly
Knew
Make
Fast
Need
If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
Jonathan Ive
You
Having
New
Obstacles
Insurmountable
Doing
Very
Anything
Used
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