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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. "

Issey Miyake

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Issey Miyake

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" 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. "

" In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value. "

" By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. "

" We have to keep a very tight check on quality. "

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

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

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

" Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am always looking to the future of making things. "

" I have worked with several dance companies. "

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

" Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work. "

" 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!' "

" Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure. "

" Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues. "

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

" 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. "

" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "