I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
Raf SimonsI would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.
Raf SimonsThe future, for me, is romantic, I donโt understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you donโt know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.
Raf SimonsI wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.
Raf SimonsThe psychology for the person who's actually doing it is completely different. I think I probably needed to put that [hired-hand] psychology in my own head to be able to do the job. Otherwise it would just be too scary. People outside make it much bigger than me. I'm not saying in my head, "Oh, my god, what an amazing idea!" It scares me if I would do that.
Raf Simons