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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.

Rei Kawakubo

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Rei Kawakubo
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 11
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