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
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.
bring brought clothing joy people
Another one is the Swatch. It's great. They brought another joy to having watches. What we can bring to people in clothing is joy - joy to have it.
commercial imagination nice personal reason
Personal imagination is not for commercial reason but to make nice feeling.
imagination morning wear
With your imagination you can wear (them) from the morning to night,
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.
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.
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.
black blue hated showy time work
Yellow, blue and black -- the glittery things, you know, shiny, showy things. I hated it before, this time I had to work on it, this kind of feeling.
clothing eighty few percent sell sold
We are not a big company. We sell in New York, London, Paris, and a few other places. Eighty percent of the clothing is sold in Japan.
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.
body draw great school taught teachers
I had great teachers at school who taught me to use all my body to paint, to draw - you can draw with your hand, you can draw with a spatula.