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

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

" 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. "

" Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely. "

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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. "

" Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are no boundaries for what can be fabric. "

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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. "

" My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form. "

" 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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" Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution. "

" A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. "

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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. "

" 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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" I like women who have their own idea of life: the woman who is assured, comfortable with herself, strong inside, proud of herself - not in an arrogant way, not showing off. "