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" I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect. "

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" The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris. "

" I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things. "

" When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed. "

" I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. "

" I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing. "

" Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!' "

" I tried never to be defined by my past. "

" Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure. "

" I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. "

" My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth. "

" Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. "

" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "

" Everything is an experiment. "

" Clothing is the closest thing to all humans. "

" If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth. "

" I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next. "

" By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. "

" I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form. "

" In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life. "

" I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people. "

" From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh. "

" You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it. "

" Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility. "

" I like women who have their own idea of life: the woman who is assured, comfortable with herself, strong inside, proud of herself - not in an arrogant way, not showing off. "

" I very much like dance and dancers. "

" Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood. "

" In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it. "

" I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts. "