Rei Kawakubo Quotes

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• For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

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  Beautiful

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

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  Progress, Creation

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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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.

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  Hate, Thinking, Order

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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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  Fashion, Born, Interaction

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• My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

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  Energy, Spirit, Rebellious

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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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  Sex, Opposites, Appeals

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• I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.

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  Husband, Thinking, Clothes

  "The Misfit" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. July 04, 2005.

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• The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

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  People, Creation

  "Rei Kawakubo: Exclusive Q&A". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

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  Change, People, Fundamentals

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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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  Japan, Mind, Spirit

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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  Fashion, Clothes, People

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• Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Thinking

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• Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

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  Feelings, Being Free, Oneself

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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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, People, Feelings

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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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  Fashion, Art, People

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• 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 of activity.

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  Fashion, Play, People

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• 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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  Years, People, Collections

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• I work in three shades of black.

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  Fashion, Black, Three

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• My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

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  Clothes, Would Be, Intention

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• Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

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  Fashion, Art, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.

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  Beautiful, Expression, Games

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• 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. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

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  Strong, Pain, Struggle

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful blue fabric, so I made Blue Witches. My creative process is always like that. Organic, text, theme, subtext, each day evolving and trying to make strong, beautiful clothes. It's that simple.

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  Beautiful, Strong Women, Simple

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.

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  Clothes, Limits, Endeavor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Comme des Garçons, 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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  Feet, Space, Mind

  Source: www.elle.com

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