Rei Kawakubo

Designer

1942-10-11

Quotes by Rei Kawakubo

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

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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.

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• Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

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• As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere.

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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.

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