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" There are no boundaries for what can be fabric. "
Issey Miyake
Fabric
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" Retire? Never! We are far too busy! "
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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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" 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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" The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day? "
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" I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. "
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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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" 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. "
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" We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. "
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" The future of fashion is light, durable clothes. "
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" By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. "
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" My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form. "
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" I have worked with several dance companies. "
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" A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris. "
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" Clothing is the closest thing to all humans. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle. "
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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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" I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts. "
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" Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure. "
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" A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living. "
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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. "
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