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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
#Art
#Past
#Person
#Relationship
#Today
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
- Issey Miyake
#Always
#People
#Real World
#Real
#World
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.
- Issey Miyake
#Environmental
#Face
#Problems
#Today
Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.
- Issey Miyake
#Easy
#Lifestyle
#Needs
#Well
#Work
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
- Issey Miyake
#Face
#Feel
#Resources
#Uncertainty
#Us
My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.
- Issey Miyake
#Body
#Element
#Space
#Three-Dimensional
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.
- Issey Miyake
#Energy
#Freedom
#Imagination
#Life
#Who
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
- Issey Miyake
#Clothes
#Fashion
#People
#Top
#Tradition
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.
- Issey Miyake
#Black
#Escape
#Experience
#Eyes
#Light
Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
- Issey Miyake
#Beauty
#Bring
#Joy
#Things
#Think
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.
- Issey Miyake
#Culture
#Design
#Feel
#History
#Rich
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
#Adventure
#Feel
#Generation
#Live
#Time
If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.
- Issey Miyake
#Ancient
#Back
#History
#Look
#Making
My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.
- Issey Miyake
#Between
#Generation
#Limbo
#Lived
#Two
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
#Fabric
#Like
#Old
#Something
#Underwear
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
#Always
#Bomb
#Hiroshima
#Questions
#Want
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
#Alive
#Change
#First Step
#Process
#Step
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
- Issey Miyake
#Architecture
#Been
#Beyond
#Clothing
#Go
#Want
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
#Film
#Important
#Look
#People
#Will
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
- Issey Miyake
#Been
#Kind
#Movement
#Never
#Political
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
- Issey Miyake
#Purpose
#Recycling
#Start
#Use
#Where
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
#Clothes
#Freedom
#Her
#Things
#Wonderful
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.
- Issey Miyake
#Fear
#Peace
#Step
#Walk
#World
There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
- Issey Miyake
#Boundaries
#Fabric
#No Boundaries
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
- Issey Miyake
#Aesthetic
#Based
#Create
#Life
#Style
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
- Issey Miyake
#Always
#Computers
#High
#Technology
#Try
#Work
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
- Issey Miyake
#Design
#Life
#Philosophy
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