Raf Simons
Raf Simons
Raf Simonsis a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995. In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. On October 22, 2015 he resigned from Christian Dior...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth12 January 1968
CityNeerpelt, Belgium
CountryBelgium
dream past people
The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.
the-end-of-the-day looks dior
My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back,
dream fashion thinking
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
rock-and-roll rocks techno
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
collaboration matter sometimes
Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.
falling-in-love clothes people
But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied
dad two bicycle
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
years publicity shy
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
dior want abstract
I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.
couple ideas assistants
My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
running artist long
It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.
example gallery shows
Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.
photography people events
And 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.
heritage way periods
It 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."