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
thinking clothes museums
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
sculpture wells clothings
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
rain moving fall
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.
design
Work for money, design for love.
real people world
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
technology hands trying
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
death philosophy design
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
technology hands brain
I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.
art body figures
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
ideas use purpose
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
moving clothes space
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
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.
fashion size way
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
cut depends extreme
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.