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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. "

Issey Miyake

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

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" In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life. "

" Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that. "

" 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. "

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

" My design is no design. "

Issey Miyake

Design

" The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. "

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

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

" I am very interested in the culture of paper. "

Issey Miyake

I Am

Culture

" In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it. "

" We have to keep a very tight check on quality. "

" I try to be free. The women also must be free. "

" Clothes have become more personal, more a matter of very individual taste. "

" 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 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. "