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.

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

Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.

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."

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.

There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.