There's always a pattern in order to make a thing, but the starting point must be something I've never seen before. It's not two-dimensional, but it's like a sample. I work with patterns like a sculptor. I try to get [the team] not to work on a body, [but] to work on a free space, on a table. The work is basically on flat surfaces.

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

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.

Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

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