The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.

I am always looking to the future of making things.

A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology.

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts.

There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.

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.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.

I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.

Indian clothes are usually tight.

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I have worked with several dance companies.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.