Work for money, design for love.

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

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

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

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

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