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

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

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

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.

It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.

I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful blue fabric, so I made Blue Witches. My creative process is always like that. Organic, text, theme, subtext, each day evolving and trying to make strong, beautiful clothes. It's that simple.

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