Japanese - Designer | April 22, 1935 -
Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.
Issey Miyake
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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.
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Clothes have become more personal, more a matter of very individual taste.
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I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
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I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.
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Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
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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.
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Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
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