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
fine knew plan
I knew the Fondation Cartier. It's a very free, very fine place to have exhibitions. The plan was to show working as an exhibition.
imagination morning wear
With your imagination you can wear (them) from the morning to night,
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.
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.
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.
artists forget people
I like to go to galleries. Other people give me ideas. If I see something I like, I ask. Then I give the artists the clothes, and I forget about it.
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.
company
I have worked with several dance companies.
dance dancer
I very much like dance and dancers.
machines fabric assistants
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
fabric care cotton
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.
bombs want designer
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
cutting use alive
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