I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
Even though it is difficult, it is easier for me to make my own things, by myself.
This idea of collaborating with designers - that's something I can identify with.
Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.
I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.
As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere.
The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.
I always had good reactions from people with a good eye and a vision... and very terrible reactions from those who are afraid of people who are different to others - at the beginning and even now. I have never worried about it too much.
I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.
The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.
According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It's my favourite colour after black and red.
In response to the making of DSMNY, a change in the Chelsea store became necessary. My flagship stores always have to lead the way.
The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.
Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.
In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.
Although I do not believe in fame, what it brings me is the fact that I can ask someone to work with me, and they do not say no.
Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.
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.
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.
I want to make a shop that's unlike any that already exists.
