I 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 SimonsAnd even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.
Raf SimonsI'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
Raf SimonsIt felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."
Raf Simons