Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
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What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and from different angles. I construct a collection and it takes concrete form. That's probably what appears conceptual to people because it never starts out with any specific historical or geographical reference. My point of departure is always abstract and multileveled.
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Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.
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Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
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Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
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Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
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I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else
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For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.
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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.
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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 place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.