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.

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.

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

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

I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.

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

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.