Rei Kawakubo famous quotes

04-17-2025

For something to be beautiful it doesnâ€™t have to be pretty.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Beautiful
I work in three shades of black.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Black #Shade
Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Beautiful #Thinking
I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Husband #Thinking #Clothes
Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Sex #Opposites #Appeals
The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#People #Creation
I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Clothes #People
The same spirit runs through everything I do.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Running #Spirit
My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Energy #Spirit #Rebellious
The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Beautiful #Expression #Games
Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Art #People
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Born #Interaction
Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Change #People #Fundamentals
The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Responsibility #Thinking
My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Clothes #Would Be #Intention
You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Years #People #Collections
If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Hate #Thinking #Order
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and from different angles. I construct a collection and it takes concrete form. That's probably what appears conceptual to people because it never starts out with any specific historical or geographical reference. My point of departure is always abstract and multileveled.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #People #Feelings

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