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Rei Kawakubo Biography

Rei Kawakubo (川久保玲, Kawakubo Rei) (b. 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo, an exhibition of her designs entitled Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garçons, Art of the In-Between opened on May 5, 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Afraid, Collection, Collections, Good, People, Years

There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before.

Clothes, Limits, Endeavor, Exist

I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.

Clothes, Husband, Make, Thinking, Woman

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

Anarchy, Chaos, Freedom, Mean, Yes

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

Beautiful, Beauty, Thinking, Thinks

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.

Havens, Succeeded, Way, Whatsoever

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.

Business, Change, Compromise, Hate, Order, Thinking

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. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

Design, Pain, Strong, Struggle, Torture, Way

It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.

Groups, Hated, Leader, Organization, Part, Thing

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.

Art, Attach, Fashion, People, Piece

I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.

Kind, Lead, Leader, People, Real

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.

Absence, Beautiful, Common, Expression, Games

In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free. The necessity has grown, as we have gotten bigger, to think about commercial aspects of the business more and more, because of the responsibility we have toward our staff and our factories.

Responsibility, Thinking, Abiding, Factories, Respect, Suiting

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.

Fashion, People, Responsibility, Think, Thinking, Uninteresting

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

Expectations, Work, Affect, Celebrity, Understands

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

Energy, Freedom, Rebellious, Spirit

Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.

Media, Years, Expectations, Heavily, Harder

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

Clothes, Fashion, Like, People, Today

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

Being Free, Feeling, Feelings, Free, Oneself

I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

Accident, Connections, Growing, Growing Up, Japan, Postwar

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