A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...