Issey Miyake quotes

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

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.

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

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

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

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

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.

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

I am always looking to the future of making things.

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.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology.

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.

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

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.

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.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

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

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

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