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

In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.

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.

What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.

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.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.