Issey Miyake

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

— Issey Miyake

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely.

— Issey Miyake

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the…

— Issey Miyake

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear…

— Issey Miyake

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials…

— Issey Miyake

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

— Issey Miyake

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a…

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

— Issey Miyake

The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?

— Issey Miyake

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to…

— Issey Miyake

I'd rather look to the future than to the past.

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element,…

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.

— Issey Miyake

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of,…

— Issey Miyake

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and…

— Issey Miyake

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

— Issey Miyake

I have worked with several dance companies.

— Issey Miyake

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

— Issey Miyake

We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut…

— Issey Miyake