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

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" I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing. "

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

" 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. "

" I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked. "

" I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people. "

" Indian clothes are usually tight. "

" My design is no design. "

" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "

" A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I tried never to be defined by my past. "

" I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life. "

" 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. "

" Clothing is the closest thing to all humans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood. "

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

" 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. "

" Clothes have become more personal, more a matter of very individual taste. "

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

" I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. "

" I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. "

" Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution. "

" Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle. "

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

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

" I believe that all forms of creativity are related. "