Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born..

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit..

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

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 importan….

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

I work in three shades of black..

It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you h….

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….

I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bit….

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful..

I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will..

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming m….

I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful ….

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ….

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out ….

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 '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London..

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beauti….

The freedom I give myself for the business is in deciding to take part in the Paris collections, but also having other retail strategies that are unl….

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

The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract.….