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Issey Miyake

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

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

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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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"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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"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
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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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"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."
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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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