The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn't have any financial backing or support. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
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… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
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… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
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 Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share
The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
It's interesting for me to sell Comme des Garcons in places it's never been sold before to people who might not have heard of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
