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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.

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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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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I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.
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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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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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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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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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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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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'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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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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There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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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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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 don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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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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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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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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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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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
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