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Fashion designer

Issey Miyake, born on April 22, 1938, is a renowned Japanese fashion designer known for his minimalist, practical, and functional design style, which has had a profound impact on the fashion industry.

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Famous Issey Miyake Quotes

“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.”

Trying Sunset Capture

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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.”

Want Designer Bombs Survived Avoided Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

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

People World Real Real World Clothings Worn

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“Work for money, design for love.”

Design

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“By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”

Way Fashion Size

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“Design is not for philosophy it's for life.”

Philosophy Death Design Graphic Design Funny Graphic Design

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“I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.”

Ifs Care Used Easy Cold Warm Take Care Fabric Cotton

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

Ideas Use Purpose Environment Recycling Reuse

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“I very much like dance and dancers.”

Dance Dancer

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“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.”

Important Shows Body Hands Brain Technology Materials Essentials Research Tools Method Important Things Developing Our Thoughts New Technology Conducting Craftsmanship

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

Art Body Artist Figures Happenings Art Is Things Happen Great Things Clothings

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

Trying Hands Technology Computer High Technology

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

Wells Clothings Sculpture

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“I have worked with several dance companies.”

Company

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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”

Way Firsts Use Courses Process Steps Cutting Alive Shirts Hats First Steps Buttons Sock Reuse

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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”

Made Used Found Machines Fabric Jersey Underwear Assistants

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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”

People Thinking Should Wells Looks Important Film Seeing Clothes Museums Worn Exhibitions

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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”

People Body Wanted Moving Space Laughing Movement Clothes Moved Space Between

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“The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.”

Moving Fall Energy Water Source Essentials Elements Rain Skins Embrace Plant Suits Scent Perfume Fragrance Garments Dew Source Of Life Rain Falling

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About the Author

Born: April 22, 1938
Known for: Fashion designer
Quotes: 19

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