Issey Miyake

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards…

— Issey Miyake

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that…

— Issey Miyake

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon…

— Issey Miyake

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of…

— Issey Miyake

Work for money, design for love.

— Issey Miyake

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit…

— Issey Miyake

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

— Issey Miyake

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use…

— Issey Miyake

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested,…

— Issey Miyake

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

— Issey Miyake

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

— Issey Miyake

I tried never to be defined by my past.

— Issey Miyake

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

— Issey Miyake

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

— Issey Miyake

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

— Issey Miyake

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a…

— Issey Miyake

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them…

— Issey Miyake

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the…

— Issey Miyake

I very much like dance and dancers.

— Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

— Issey Miyake

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

— Issey Miyake