"Its all over when we must repeat the themes of the past. I want only to work with ideas which are completely new and different."

"I think that artists are much better off than designers in the sense that anything they do is looked at as a creation alone. However, there is a very thin line between a designer who is original and one who is simply weird in the world of fashion. This is because fashion and design are not recognized as a method of self-expression here in Japan in the same way that art is."

Rei Kawakubo - Comme des Garcons 1996

"I am eye, a mechanical eye.I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see."

Dziga Vertov, russ. Filmmaker
(in "Six", Comme Des Garcons-Book 1/1988)