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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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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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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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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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I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
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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 can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, It's your job to make the story.
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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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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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Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.
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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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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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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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There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.
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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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