In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.
From Issey Miyake
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.
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.
Men have been buying my women's coats for years.
I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.
The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?
I tried never to be defined by my past.
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