Zitat des Tages von Rei Kawakubo:
What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.
For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.
I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.
According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It's my favourite colour after black and red.
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.
Even though it is difficult, it is easier for me to make my own things, by myself.
I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.
I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.
I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.
Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
I want to make a shop that's unlike any that already exists.
Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.
If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.
I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.
I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.
I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.
I work in three shades of black.
I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.
Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.
I don't like to use expensive materials. I take care to make costs reasonable. It's very similar to the way I make clothes.
It's interesting for me to sell Comme des Garcons in places it's never been sold before to people who might not have heard of Comme des Garcons.
I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls.
What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.
