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Issey Miyake
Japanese
Designer
Born:
Apr 22
,
1935
Clothes
Clothing
People
Think
Work
You
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I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.
Issey Miyake
Love
Free
Research
Evolve
Explore
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
Issey Miyake
Freedom
Wonderful
Clothes
Took
Kimono
Brought
Construct
He
Idea
Because
Understood
Geometric
Did
Wonderful Things
Influenced
Paul
Really
European
Her
Things
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Style
Aesthetic
Create
Fashionable
Based
There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
Issey Miyake
No Boundaries
Fabric
Boundaries
Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.
Issey Miyake
Closest
Closest Thing
Clothing
Thing
Humans
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
People
Clothes
Top
For The People
French
Make
Became
Tradition
Fashion Designer
Designer
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Design
Philosophy
Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
Issey Miyake
Joy
Beauty
Think
Destroyed
Created
Things
Bring
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
You
First
To Be Honest
Research
Think
Machines
Possibility
Find
Something
Never
Longer
Make
Forgotten
Happen
Not Interested
Interested
Should
Used
Many
Things
Things Happen
Honest
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Issey Miyake
About
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Always
Hiroshima
Questions
Labelled
Survived
Did
Want
Avoided
Who
Therefore
Bomb
Designer
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
Issey Miyake
Work
Feeling
Sense
Reciprocated
Frank
Only
Adventure
Also
Understood
His
Translated
Fun
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
Issey Miyake
Well
Doing
Clothing
Really
Sculpture
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.
Issey Miyake
Change
First
Other
Ways
Those
Alive
Hats
Something
Step
New
Make
First Step
Course
Shirts
Dye
Anything
Process
Cut
Use
Many
Buttons
Socks
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
Issey Miyake
Made
Clothes
Dancers
Had
Liked
Sent
Chose
I have worked with several dance companies.
Issey Miyake
Dance
Several
Worked
Companies
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake
Work
Technology
Try
High
Touch
Computers
Put
Always
Hand
Even
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
Issey Miyake
Monroe
Way
Size
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Art
Great
Great Thing
Artists
Clothing
Happening
Body
Figure
Using
Now
Thing
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
Issey Miyake
Political
Kind
Never
Involved
Been
Political Movement
Any
Movement
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
Issey Miyake
People
World
Worn
Always
Making
Real
Clothing
The Real World
Real World
Interested
We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
Issey Miyake
Quality
Check
Tight
Very
Keep
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
Respect
Age
Women
People
Men
Men And Women
Lose
Energy
Think
Those
Proud
Forgot
Who
My design is no design.
Issey Miyake
Design
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.
Issey Miyake
Today
Art
Relationship
Past
Admired
Admires
More
Between
Revered
Afar
Person
Interactive
In The Past
Who
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
Issey Miyake
Time
Generation
Live
Striving
Architects
Feel
Toward
Adventure
Boundless
Always
The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.
Issey Miyake
Future
Fashion
Light
Clothes
Durable
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