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Issey Miyake

"I very much like dance and dancers."

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"I very much like dance and dancers."

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"My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day."

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"Dance, as if nobody is watching. Love, as if you have never been hurt before."

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"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look."

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"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically."

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Amber Hurdle

"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."

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Amber Hurdle

"So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

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Amber Hurdle

"I loved fencing and dancing and elocution."

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Amber Hurdle

"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted."

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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."
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"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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"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important."
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"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."
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"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
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"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."
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