Japanese - Designer | April 22, 1935 -
Everything is an experiment.
Issey Miyake
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In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.
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Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'
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Men have been buying my women's coats for years.
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The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?
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I tried never to be defined by my past.
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I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.
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Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
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My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
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I am very interested in the culture of paper.
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Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.
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In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.
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