Quotes from Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

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.

Work for money, design for love.

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

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology.

Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

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.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.