Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

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

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

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.