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!'
From Issey Miyake
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
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.
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.
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
My design is no design.
Everything is an experiment.
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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