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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have worked with several dance companies. "

" 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. "

" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "

" 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. "

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

" We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. "

" My design is no design. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd rather look to the future than to the past. "

" 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. "

" I very much like dance and dancers. "

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

" Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. "

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

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

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

" I try to be free. The women also must be free. "

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

" The important thing is to make something. In reality, it's not important that a designer be known by name - you can remain anonymous. Even the status of a designer will undergo changes, I believe. "

" From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh. "

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

" I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts. "

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