Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
I very much like dance and dancers.
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
I have worked with several dance companies.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
Indian clothes are usually tight.
We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
My design is no design.
I'd rather look to the future than to the past.
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.
I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.
There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.
I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts.
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.
Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.
I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.
