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  • Fashion Designer
  • born 1938
  • 93 quotes

Issey Miyake, Fashion Designer (born 1938), is quoted 93 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Clothing, Tight, Dancers and Design.

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Everything is an experiment.

Work for money, design for love.

Indian clothes are usually tight.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Retire? Never! We are far too busy!

I tried never to be defined by my past.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

I have worked with several dance companies.

Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.

We have to keep a very tight check on quality.

There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.

The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

Men have been buying my women's coats for years.

I am most interested in people and the human form.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

I believe that all forms of creativity are related.

I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

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

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

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

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

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

I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

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

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

The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?

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

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

Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.

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.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

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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