Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

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

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful blue fabric, so I made Blue Witches. My creative process is always like that. Organic, text, theme, subtext, each day evolving and trying to make strong, beautiful clothes. It's that simple.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.