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The Dutch saying, Doe normaal, dan ben je al gek genoeg (literally, Just be normal, then you are crazy enough) sheds light on the work of design team Viktor & Rolf.

Viktor Horsting (b.

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) and Rolf Snoeren (b. ) met while they were students at the Arnhem Academy of Art, the Netherlands, in They both sought to escape the boredom they experienced while growing up in small, quiet, suburban towns in southern Holland.

"We had nothing to relate to, never saw glamour except for fashion magazines, and longed to escape to those dream worlds," Horsting once said to an interviewer. By pushing the boundaries of what defines fashion, Viktor & Rolf inspired a new generation of Dutch fashion designers and helped to expose the international fashion media to a country known more for wooden clogs than high fashion.

Viktor & Rolf are characterized in Stephen Gan's Visionaire () as "fashion's biggest fans and its toughest critics." While their works celebrate the