Words matter. These are the best Rei Kawakubo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 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.
The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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.
When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.
Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.
Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something is new and has never been seen before, I don’t mind if people call it art. Wear them if you dare.
I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.
I am not aware I am an icon.
I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.
Although I do not believe in fame, what it brings me is the fact that I can ask someone to work with me, and they do not say no.
In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.
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.
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.
The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.
I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else’s.
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.
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.
This idea of collaborating with designers – that’s something I can identify with.
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.
Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.
What’s interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.
The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.
What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level.
The Dover Street Markets bring brands of all disciplines together to sell their products in an open atmosphere that, most importantly, incites creativity. They are, along with the ‘Comme des Garcons’ stores, usually located in areas off the beaten track.
I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.
I want to make a shop that’s unlike any that already exists.
Even though it is difficult, it is easier for me to make my own things, by myself.
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.
I don’t look very much at magazines or go to vintage stores.
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It’s my favourite colour after black and red.
As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere.
I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.
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.
