Rei Kawakubo said this quote

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

~ Rei Kawakubo

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.

~ Rei Kawakubo

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

~ Rei Kawakubo