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I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

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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.

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I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

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When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

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The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

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For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.

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I am not aware I am an icon.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Designer

Born: October 11th, 1942

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