Top 35 Issey Quotes
#1. The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
Sam Bradford
#2. I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.
David Chipperfield
#3. I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
Issey Miyake
#4. The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
Issey Miyake
#6. At some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are ...
John Geddes
#7. The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
Robertson Davies
#8. Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake
#9. 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.
Issey Miyake
#10. 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.
Issey Miyake
#11. Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
Issey Miyake
#12. 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.
Issey Miyake
#13. 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.
Issey Miyake
#14. Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.
Shannen Doherty
#15. 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.
Issey Miyake
#16. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
#17. Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
Issey Miyake
#18. 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.
Issey Miyake
#19. I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
Issey Miyake
#20. 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.
Issey Miyake
#21. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
#22. To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it. - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy)
Cyndi Goodgame
#23. 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.
Issey Miyake
#24. A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
#26. Henry would like to make Emma Smallwood smile like that. He would have to make it his aim next time they were together.
Julie Klassen
#27. I have worked with several dance companies.
Issey Miyake
#29. I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Issey Miyake
#30. I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
Issey Miyake
#31. Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it's all about consumption and calories.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#32. Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake
#33. 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.
Issey Miyake
#34. 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.
Issey Miyake
#35. You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.
Brett Favre
