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Issey Miyake

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

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

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Issey Miyake
"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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"I very much like dance and dancers."
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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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