Top 36 Miyake 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. 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
#4. The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.
Jonathan Kellerman
#5. She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that's directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us." But the Stephen Colbert who speaks
Bruce Watson
#6. 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
#7. Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
Issey Miyake
#8. I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
Howie Mandel
#9. 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
#10. Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
Malaika Arora Khan
#11. 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
#12. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
Woodrow Wyatt
#13. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
Drew Houston
#14. For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
Jon Secada
#15. Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
Ira Sachs
#16. 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
#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. The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
Issey Miyake
#20. I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.
Elena Anaya
#21. 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
#22. Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.
Greg McAdoo
#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. I have worked with several dance companies.
Issey Miyake
#27. I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
Issey Miyake
#28. 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
#29. Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake
#30. I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
Issey Miyake
#31. Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake
#32. 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
#33. 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. I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
Issey Miyake
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