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" A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology. "

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" I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things. "

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

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

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

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

" When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth. "

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

" I very much like dance and dancers. "

Issey Miyake

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" The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris. "

" Clothing is the closest thing to all humans. "

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

" 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. "

" I am most interested in people and the human form. "

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

" 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. "

" The future of fashion is light, durable clothes. "

" Retire? Never! We are far too busy! "

" When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed. "

" Design is not for philosophy it's for life. "

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

Issey Miyake

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" 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 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. "