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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.
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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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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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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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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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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Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.
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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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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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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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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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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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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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I work in three shades of black.
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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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