Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake
Issey Miyakeis a Japanese fashion designer and fragrance connoisseur. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, most notably the "L'eau d Issey" brand scent which became his most iconic product worldwide...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth22 April 1938
CountryJapan
ideas use purpose
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
moving clothes space
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
technology hands brain
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.
design
Work for money, design for love.
technology hands trying
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
sculpture wells clothings
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
death philosophy design
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
rain moving fall
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.
bombs want designer
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
fabric care cotton
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.
machines fabric assistants
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
cutting use alive
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
dance dancer
I very much like dance and dancers.
company
I have worked with several dance companies.