Issey Miyake

Designer

1935-04-22

Books by Issey Miyake

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Quotes by Issey Miyake

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 other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
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Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
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With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.
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Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.
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If Mr. Obama could walk across the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima - whose balustrades were designed by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi as a reminder both of his ties to East and West and of what humans do to one another out of hatred - it would be both a real and a symbolic step toward creating a world that knows no fear of nuclear threat.
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We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
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Indian clothes are usually tight.
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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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All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.
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My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
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I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.
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I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.
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You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.
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My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.
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The important thing is to make something. In reality, it's not important that a designer be known by name - you can remain anonymous. Even the status of a designer will undergo changes, I believe.
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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 - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.
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Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.
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I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
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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 it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.
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Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
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