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." …

- Rei Kawakubo

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

- Rei Kawakubo

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

- Rei Kawakubo

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

- Rei Kawakubo

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…

- Rei Kawakubo

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

- Rei Kawakubo

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

- Rei Kawakubo

I work in three shades of black.

- Rei Kawakubo

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

- Rei Kawakubo