I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

Work for money, design for love.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!

It is the end result that counts.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.