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

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

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

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

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

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

These words are razors to my wounded heart.