You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

It 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.

The same spirit runs through everything I do.

In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free. The necessity has grown, as we have gotten bigger, to think about commercial aspects of the business more and more, because of the responsibility we have toward our staff and our factories.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.