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

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."

I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, "It's your job to make the story."

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.

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

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

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