The same spirit runs through everything I do..

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….

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." ….

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

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

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit..

I work in three shades of black..

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

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

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 ….

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 differ….

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself..

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

I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one….

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 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 Monste….

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that ….

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 mea….

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 crea….

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever..