I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else
Rei KawakuboIt was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.
Rei KawakuboI am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.
Rei KawakuboIt would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
Rei KawakuboThe idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.
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