Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
I try to be free. The women also must be free.
We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.
I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.
All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.
In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?
Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.
A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.
Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely.
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
