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

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

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

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 am a clothes maker, and that's all I am. I only want to talk about the making of the clothes. I don't feel the need to go out there and explain that.

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.

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