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" Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work. "
Issey Miyake
Adventure
Sense
Work
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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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" I am most interested in people and the human form. "
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I Am
People
Most
" I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve. "
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Explore
Evolve
Free
" I believe that all forms of creativity are related. "
Issey Miyake
Believe
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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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Peace
World
Walk
" I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked. "
Issey Miyake
Dancers
Sent
Made
" 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 when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh. "
Issey Miyake
Dance
Beginning
Space
" I tried never to be defined by my past. "
Issey Miyake
I Tried
Defined
Tried
" 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. "
Issey Miyake
Face
People
Feel
" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "
Issey Miyake
Clothing
Make
Function
" Design is not for philosophy it's for life. "
Issey Miyake
Life
Design
Philosophy
" I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic. "
Issey Miyake
Modern
Clothing
Creative
" Retire? Never! We are far too busy! "
Issey Miyake
Too
Busy
Far
" Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. "
Issey Miyake
Work
Try
Technology
" I always wanted to create clothing that was universal - easy to wear, to care for, and that was also beautiful. As such, I became interested in polyester, and its potential, from the beginning of my career. "
Issey Miyake
Beginning
Potential
Care
" My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds. "
Issey Miyake
Japan
Generation
Worlds
" I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight. "
Issey Miyake
Work
Trust
Respect
" I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. "
Issey Miyake
Atomic Bomb
Want
Questions
" 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. "
Issey Miyake
You
Together
Clothes
" To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used. "
Issey Miyake
Things Happen
Research
You
" 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. "
Issey Miyake
People
Clothes
Think
" I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. "
Issey Miyake
People
Top
Clothes
" I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things. "
Issey Miyake
Make
Care
Trendy
" In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important. "
Issey Miyake
Fashion
Time
Present
" Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!' "
Issey Miyake
Done
Work
Time
" I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next. "
Issey Miyake
I Am
Like
Past
" In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life. "
Issey Miyake
Life
Work
Paris
" 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. "
Issey Miyake
Work
Back
Clothing
" Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. "
Issey Miyake
Sculpture
Really
Doing
" A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. "
Issey Miyake
Now
Life
Art