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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
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City of Tokyo
Comme des Garçons
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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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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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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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I work in three shades of black.
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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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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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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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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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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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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I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.
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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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I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
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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've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.
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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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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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In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.
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I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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