Japanese - Designer | April 22, 1935 -
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
Issey Miyake
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I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.
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We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.
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Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.
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I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
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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.
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There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
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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.
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The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
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I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.
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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.
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Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.
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