Suzukawa Rei Quotes

#1. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#2. 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. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#3. I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#4. I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#5. I think you need new boots," he said when I showed him my feet, echoing Greg's and Brent's sentiments. "But I can't get new boots. I don't have the money," I told him, no longer too ashamed to admit it. "Where'd you buy them?" asked Rex. "REI." "Call them. They've got a satisfaction guarantee. They'll replace them for free." "They will?" "Call the 1-800 number," he said. I - Author: Cheryl Strayed

#6. What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#7. Feeling free inside oneself is being free. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#8. 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. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#9. The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stores are well known for their abundance of white customers and their extensive inventory of things for white people to buy and only use once. - Author: Christian Lander

#10. I won't let you take advantage of women! Here's the Mars Power flame of anger! (ROAR) I'll punish you in high heels!
- Rei/Sailor Mars - Author: Naoko Takeuchi

#11. I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#12. Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] - Author: Horace

#13. Rei glanced over at me and nodded. "Exactly, Dieter. Just avoid having the cattle and keep walking." I cleared my throat. "A cow. It's 'don't have a cow.'" Rei frowned. "I fail to see why it must be a female. - Author: B. Justin Shier

#14. There are no limits - I endeavor to make clothes that didn't exist before. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#15. It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#16. Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#17. For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#18. Love letters to the depressed and the future heart
broken
I'm leaving the light on in my old street
Hoping I see some surrender on the other side of
town
Blink twice if you can see me. Blink thrice if you need me.
We've been walking alone for too long, putting all our rotten eggs in the same basket
Skipping in the dark, singing do rei (forget) me. - Author: Renee Ruin

#19. Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#20. But despite its shared nature, language is also dangerous, a potentially isolating enterprise. Not all players are equal. In fact, Wittgenstein was by no means always a successful participant himself, frequently experiencing extreme difficulty in communication and expression. In an essay on fear and public language, the critic Rei Terada describes a scene repeated throughout Wittgenstein's life, in which he would begin to stammer while attempting to address a group of colleagues. Eventually, his stuttering would give way to a tense silence, during which he would struggle mutely with his thoughts, gesticulating all the while with his hands, as if he was still speaking audibly. - Author: Olivia Laing

#21. In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free. The necessity has grown, as we have gotten bigger, to think about commercial aspects of the business more and more, because of the responsibility we have toward our staff and our factories. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#22. I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#23. Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#24. It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#25. I looked to Rei, wondering if his vague answer to Betsy meant he might let me slip away downstairs, but A'isha had once again engaged him, hooking one of the many melos scarves she wore around his waist in an attempt to draw him into the dance.
The crow looked at it with shock. A'isha plucked the scarf away with a flourish.
"No need to be shy, little crow," A'isha said. "If the gods didn't want people to admire you, they wouldn't have made you so stunning."
I got to see Rei flush for the first time, blood creeping into his tanned skin. A'isha flipped her scarf around his neck.
"One dance," A'isha implored. "I'm sure Zane would go elsewhere; you would be performing only for the nest."
"I'm sure Zane would," Rei said dryly, glancing at me.
I shrugged.
"What is your lady friend going to think, if she hears you are learning to dance but are ashamed to perform?" A'isha goaded the crow.
"One dance," Rei said, relenting. "And only because I know you'll never forgive me if I don't take my opportunity to make a public fool of myself." He turned to me. "You get out of here and thank A'isha for giving me an excuse to leave you alone."
I would indeed. - Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#26. Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei. - Author: Gichin Funakoshi

#27. What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity. - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#28. I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, "It's your job to make the story." - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#29. I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else - Author: Rei Kawakubo

#30. panta rei ("All things are in flux"), - Author: Epicurus

#31. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. - Author: Cheryl Strayed