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
love next
I think we have to go to the next step. I want to communicate to the people, more than to show my work. I love design.
body draw great school taught teachers
I had great teachers at school who taught me to use all my body to paint, to draw - you can draw with your hand, you can draw with a spatula.
commercial imagination nice personal reason
Personal imagination is not for commercial reason but to make nice feeling.
fine knew plan
I knew the Fondation Cartier. It's a very free, very fine place to have exhibitions. The plan was to show working as an exhibition.
artists forget people
I like to go to galleries. Other people give me ideas. If I see something I like, I ask. Then I give the artists the clothes, and I forget about it.
imagination morning wear
With your imagination you can wear (them) from the morning to night,
longer machines
To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
avoided designer labelled survived therefore
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
bouncing cook four machine people persons twist
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.
involved
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
increasing
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
chose
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
clothing eighty few percent sell sold
We are not a big company. We sell in New York, London, Paris, and a few other places. Eighty percent of the clothing is sold in Japan.
sunset trying capture
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.