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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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 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.
Rei Kawakubo
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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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 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.
Rei Kawakubo
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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Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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 make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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I am a clothes maker, and that's all I am. I only want to talk about the making of the clothes. I don't feel the need to go out there and explain that.
Rei Kawakubo
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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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
Rei Kawakubo
Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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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.
Rei Kawakubo
The freedom I give myself for the business is in deciding to take part in the Paris collections, but also having other retail strategies that are unlike anybody else's. Not necessarily going into malls, doing the business my own way - having different brands to cover different concepts, to be able to have the cash flow to carry on.
Rei Kawakubo
There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
Rei Kawakubo
For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.
Rei Kawakubo
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.
Rei Kawakubo
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.
Rei Kawakubo
I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.
Rei Kawakubo