I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine cr….

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive.….

Work for money, design for love..

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are….

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand..

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jersey….

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life..

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you..

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when peopl….

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's gre….

Design is not for philosophy it's for life..

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima..

I very much like dance and dancers..

The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energ….

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse..

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture..

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world..

I have worked with several dance companies..

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14..