Ann Demeulemeester

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.

Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

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.

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

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.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.