Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

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.

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

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

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

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

The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.