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" My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds. "

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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. "

" We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric. "

" Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy. "

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

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

" Retire? Never! We are far too busy! "

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

" I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day? "

" The future of fashion is light, durable clothes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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