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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

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.

Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something is new and has never been seen before, I don't mind if people call it art. Wear them if you dare.

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.

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.

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

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

I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.

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

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.

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.

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

What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level.

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

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

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

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

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

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

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

This idea of collaborating with designers - that's something I can identify with.

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

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 Comme des Garcons.

Not everyone necessarily needs new things all the time and creative designs. It's good to have luxury restaurants and fast-food restaurants. You need both.

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.

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