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" The future of fashion is light, durable clothes. "
Issey Miyake
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" The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Function alone does not make clothing appealing. "
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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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" Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. "
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" 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. "
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" I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things. "
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" Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work. "
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" Clothes have become more personal, more a matter of very individual taste. "
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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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" 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 tried never to be defined by my past. "
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" 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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" My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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