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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.

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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