Rei Kawakubo Quotes

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Don't follow leaders.

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations.

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to cede their selfhood to a group, right? And yet no one can exactly live outside the group, either. Even the most obstinate survivalist probably lives in some telepathic communion with all the other obstinate survivalists out there in the woods.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.