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" I very much like dance and dancers. "
Issey Miyake
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" Indian clothes are usually tight. "
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" Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. "
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Never
" In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important. "
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" 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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" My design is no design. "
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" Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood. "
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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. "
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Care
" 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
" I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next. "
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" I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing. "
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Feel
" 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. "
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Back
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" 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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Run
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" I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve. "
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Explore
Evolve
Free
" Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. "
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Sculpture
Really
Doing
" I tried never to be defined by my past. "
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I Tried
Defined
Tried
" The future of fashion is light, durable clothes. "
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" The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. "
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" 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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" Everything is an experiment. "
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" We have to keep a very tight check on quality. "
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Very
" 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. "
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Used
" A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology. "
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" I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life. "
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" I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing. "
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" 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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" A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. "
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" 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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