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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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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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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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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 haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
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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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