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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
I always had good reactions from people with a good eye and a vision… and very terrible reactions from those who are afraid of people who are different to others – at the beginning and even now. I have never worried about it too much. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
Growing up in postwar Japan has made me the person I am, but it is not why I do the work I do. It is a very personal thing – everything comes from inside. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
