Issey Miyake Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Issey Miyake

Work for money, design for love. — Issey Miyake

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. — Issey Miyake

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world. — Issey Miyake

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

I have worked with several dance companies. — Issey Miyake

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. — Issey Miyake

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. — Issey Miyake

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues. — Issey Miyake

I very much like dance and dancers. — Issey Miyake

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. — Issey Miyake

The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman. — Issey Miyake

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

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. — Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. — Issey Miyake

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. — Issey Miyake

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. — Issey Miyake

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things. — Issey Miyake

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

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you. — Issey Miyake

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked. — Issey Miyake

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. — Issey Miyake

Design is not for philosophy it's for life. — Issey Miyake