Issey Miyake Quotes
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The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
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I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
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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 was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
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A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
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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.
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Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
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Design is not for philosophy it's for life.