Rei Kawakubo Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Feet, Space, Mind

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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 to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Numbers, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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 beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Strong, Simple

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• 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 more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thinking

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

  Rei Kawakubo

  Clothes, Made, Satisfied

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• In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Mean, Anarchy, Chaos

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Growing Up, Japan, Connections

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Rei Kawakubo

  Thinking, Special, Know How

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Punk, Something New

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free. The necessity has grown, as we have gotten bigger, to think about commercial aspects of the business more and more, because of the responsibility we have toward our staff and our factories.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Responsibility, Thinking, Abiding

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• 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 spirit of hunger.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Sports, Successful, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Expectations

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's always a pattern in order to make a thing, but the starting point must be something I've never seen before. It's not two-dimensional, but it's like a sample. I work with patterns like a sculptor. I try to get [the team] not to work on a body, [but] to work on a free space, on a table. The work is basically on flat surfaces.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Team, Two, Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Media, Years, Expectations

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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 have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Organization, Leader, Groups

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Giving, Titles, Journalist

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Rei Kawakubo

  Way, Havens

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, "It's your job to make the story."

  Rei Kawakubo

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Way, Serious, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Jobs, Independent

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.

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  Real, People, Leader

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am a clothes maker, and that's all I am. I only want to talk about the making of the clothes. I don't feel the need to go out there and explain that.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Clothes, Needs, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

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  Strong, Ambition, Order

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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 unlike anybody else's. Not necessarily going into malls, doing the business my own way - having different brands to cover different concepts, to be able to have the cash flow to carry on.

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  Paris, Cash Flow, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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 ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Artist, People, Working Together

  Source: www.elle.com

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