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Issey Miyake

"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."

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Donna Grant

"Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for."

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Donna Grant

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

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Donna Grant

"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"

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Donna Grant

"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."

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Donna Grant

"In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices."

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Donna Grant

"They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me."

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Donna Grant

"An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk."

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Donna Grant

"Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish."

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Donna Grant

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

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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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Issey Miyake
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."

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Issey Miyake
"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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Issey Miyake
"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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Issey Miyake
"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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Issey Miyake
"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."

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

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Issey Miyake
"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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Issey Miyake
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."

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Issey Miyake
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."

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