In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.

My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.