One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, … - Issey Miyake

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Issey Miyake

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, Found, Machine, Machines, Make, Underwear

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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

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By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Fashion, Monroe, Size, Way

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.

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I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

Brain, Developing, Hands, Materials, Technology, Ultimately

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Idea, Ideas, Purpose, Recycling, Use

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