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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. "

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

" I am not aware I am an icon. "

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" For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing. "

" 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. "

" I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman. "

" The Dover Street Markets bring brands of all disciplines together to sell their products in an open atmosphere that, most importantly, incites creativity. They are, along with the 'Comme des Garcons' stores, usually located in areas off the beaten track. "

" The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger. "

" I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it. "

" 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. "

" Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2. "

" I want to show people that tailoring has value, which I don't see anymore in men's fashion. "

" I work in three shades of black. "

" I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls. "

" My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes. "

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

" Even though it is difficult, it is easier for me to make my own things, by myself. "

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" 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. "

" I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert. "

" I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing. "

" I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it. "

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" 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. "

" My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection. "

" 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. "