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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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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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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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 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 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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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 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'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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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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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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Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.
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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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There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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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'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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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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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 don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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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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