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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.

— Issey Miyake

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was brought up to reuse things.

— Annabelle Selldorf

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

— Issey Miyake

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

— Erin O'Connor

I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

— Suzy Amis

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

— Dr. Seuss

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

— Vera Wang

I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

— Iris Apfel

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

— Wilson Greatbatch

Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

— Janine Benyus

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