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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
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
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City of Tokyo
Comme des Garçons
Kawakubo
Kawakubo Rei
Fashion
Free
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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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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 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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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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In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.
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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 are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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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'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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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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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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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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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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I work in three shades of black.
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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
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