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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.
Rei Kawakubo
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Rei Kawakubo
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 11
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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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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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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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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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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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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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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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I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.
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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 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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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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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 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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There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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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'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 work in three shades of black.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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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