Rei Kawakubo's Quotes

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

Rei Kawakubo

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

Rei Kawakubo

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

Rei Kawakubo

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

Rei Kawakubo