With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new .

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?