When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.

When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.

It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear.

Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.

I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.