What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

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

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

I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.