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That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion
You
People
Melancholy
Respond
One Thing
About
Because
Really
Thing
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion
People
Clothes
Say
Press
Those
People Say
Magazines
About
Sells
Create
Really
Who
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
Isaac Mizrahi
Time
Half
Busy
Think
Late
About
Something
Throw
Half The Time
Because
Just
Even
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Isaac Mizrahi
Food
Syrian
Though
Ate
Brooklyn
Temple
Still
Up
America
Where
Grew
Even
Jew
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
Isaac Mizrahi
People
Clothes
Mine
Wear
Feel
Like
Want
Them
Themselves
Describing
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
Isaac Mizrahi
Me
You
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Allen
Divine
Said
Idol
Role
Forget
What If
Want
Movie
Woody
Woody Allen
Fantasy
Really
Working
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
Isaac Mizrahi
Love
Would
Angelina Jolie
Mysterious
Talk
She
Because
Show
Figure
Her
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
Isaac Mizrahi
Love
Me
Man
Face
Phoenix
Kind
Sexy
Someday
Guy
He
Leading
Leading Man
New
Talk
Also
Because
New Kind
Private
His
Very
Legendary
Might
Creating
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi
Sex
Face
Sex Symbol
New
Became
His
Very
Mick Jagger
Jagger
Symbol
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
Isaac Mizrahi
Joan
Rivers
Trying
Next
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
Isaac Mizrahi
You
Women
Anatomy
Like
Real
Models
Real Women
Working
Who
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
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