Japanese - Designer | October 11, 1942 -
I can understand how some women want to marry a rich man. They may be happy for the rest of their lives, but they will never be free.
Rei Kawakubo
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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
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When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.
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The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
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For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.
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As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere.
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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 gets you going forward.
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I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.
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I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.
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I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.
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I work in three shades of black.
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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 create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.
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