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Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

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I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

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

I am very interested in the culture of paper.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.

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.

The important thing is to make something. In reality, it's not important that a designer be known by name - you can remain anonymous. Even the status of a designer will undergo changes, I believe.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

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...

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

We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything...

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

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