I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.
Rei KawakuboIt 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.
Rei KawakuboFashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.
Rei KawakuboThe idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.
Rei Kawakubo