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

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" A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living. "

" 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. "

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" I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve. "

" 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. "

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

" If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 believe that all forms of creativity are related. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I am very interested in the culture of paper. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

" My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form. "