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Overall, I was extremely impressed with the fashion scene that Stockholm has to offer, both on and off the runways.

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then trying to put it together that a girl here would love to wear.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

Any dialogue about fashion is a good dialogue.