Art Quote by Issey Miyake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the…

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By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

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

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

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

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

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

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