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

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

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.