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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
Rei Kawakubo
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Rei Kawakubo
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 11
Businessperson
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City of Tokyo
Comme des Garçons
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I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.
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Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.
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In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.
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I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.
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There's always a pattern in order to make a thing, but the starting point must be something I've never seen before. It's not two-dimensional, but it's like a sample. I work with patterns like a sculptor. I try to get [the team] not to work on a body, [but] to work on a free space, on a table. The work is basically on flat surfaces.
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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.
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In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, Oh, a little bit like this. In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.
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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.
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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
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What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.
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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.
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You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.
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I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, It's your job to make the story.
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