“I think it is totally normal and right that there are reactions both ways. Right from the start, I always wanted to challenge people, move them to have a reaction. Whether it is a good reaction or a bad one is unimportant.”— Rei Kawakubo, dazeddigital.com
“So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color - because you don't want to offend anybody. B…”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life.”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“If the public is balkanized, and if different groups are designing their own preferred communications packages, the consequence will be not merely the same but still more balkanization, as group members move one another toward more extreme points in line with their initial tendencies. At the same ti…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com