Explore Quotes by Rei Kawakubo

I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.

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.

Although I do not believe in fame, what it brings me is the fact that I can ask someone to work with me, and they do not say no.

Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

In response to the making of DSMNY, a change in the Chelsea store became necessary. My flagship stores always have to lead the way.

According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It's my favourite colour after black and red.

I always had good reactions from people with a good eye and a vision... and very terrible reactions from those who are afraid of people who are different to others - at the beginning and even now. I have never worried about it too much.

Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.

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

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

I don't like to use expensive materials. I take care to make costs reasonable. It's very similar to the way I make clothes.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

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

All kinds of ways of expression are spreading out all over the place, information is overflowing, and it's harder and harder to be excited about anything.