Issey Miyake Quotes

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.

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

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

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

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

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

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

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.

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

Work for money, design for love.

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

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 museum exhibitions are very important

I very much like dance and dancers.

I have worked with several dance companies.

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.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

My design is no design.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

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

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.