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

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

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

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

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

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."