Issey Miyake Quotes

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• The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
• I very much like dance and dancers.
• I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship…
• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
• Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
• Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
• I have worked with several dance companies.
• Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are…
• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys…
• Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think…
• From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move…
• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of…
• Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
• By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
• Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
• I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if…
• Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
• I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
• You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist,…
• We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it…

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