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
chose
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
increasing
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
involved
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
bouncing cook four machine people persons twist
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.
avoided designer labelled survived therefore
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
longer machines
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.
love next
I think we have to go to the next step. I want to communicate to the people, more than to show my work. I love design.