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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. "
Issey Miyake
Live
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Adventure
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" Clothing is the closest thing to all humans. "
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" I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things. "
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" I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world. "
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" I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life. "
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" 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. "
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" I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form. "
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" I am most interested in people and the human form. "
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" I am always looking to the future of making things. "
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" In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it. "
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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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Clothing
Exploring
Single
" 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. "
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Research
You
" My design is no design. "
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Design
" I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve. "
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Explore
Evolve
Free
" I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. "
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People
Top
Clothes
" 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. "
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Work
Run
Famous
" I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. "
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Kind
Political
Never
" I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic. "
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Clothing
Creative
" 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!' "
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Done
Work
Time
" Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility. "
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Earth
Must
Resources
" 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. "
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Beginning
Potential
Care
" 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. "
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Life
Work
Paris
" We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. "
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Beautiful
Mysterious
Unknown
" Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. "
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Sculpture
Really
Doing
" 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. "
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Technology
Important
Dying
" We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric. "
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Mark
Cold
Punch
" Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. "
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Beauty
Think
" 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. "
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Eyes
Experience
Red
" A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living. "
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Imagination
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" I very much like dance and dancers. "
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Much
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" We have to keep a very tight check on quality. "
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Quality
Check
Very