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My design process never start...

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

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I'm always looking to make so...

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

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What's interesting about coll...

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

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I am just working every day, ...

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.

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Creation takes things forward...

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

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I'm not an artist: I'm a busi...

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

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The monsters I thought about ...

The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.

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I don't like to explain the c...

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.

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According to research,when gi...

According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It's my favourite colour after black and red.

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If you have total freedom to ...

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.

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The corporateness of the fash...

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

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I give myself limits - not on...

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.

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I'd make my whole collection ...

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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You can tell if it's a good c...

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 can't become naked for ever...

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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Not only in the creative worl...

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

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The idea was not to make a hu...

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.

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Comme des Garcons is a gift t...

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

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In Comme des Gar?ons, I hardl...

In Comme des Gar?ons, 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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I've always said that growing...

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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