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" I tried never to be defined by my past. "
Issey Miyake
I Tried
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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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" Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process. "
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" The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes. "
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" A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. "
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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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" Clothes have become more personal, more a matter of very individual taste. "
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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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" 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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" 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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