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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit – the hungry mind – is what gets you going forward. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
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. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
I want to show people that tailoring has value, which I don’t see anymore in men’s fashion. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn’t have any financial backing or support. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote
I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing. Rei Kawakubo Read Quote