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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

Rei Kawakubo

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Rei Kawakubo
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 11
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
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City of Tokyo
Comme des Garçons
Kawakubo
Kawakubo Rei
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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'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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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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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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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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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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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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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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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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Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.
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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 work in three shades of black.
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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else
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