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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

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
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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 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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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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I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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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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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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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.
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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.
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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 make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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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.
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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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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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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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There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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