114 Quotes by Issey Miyake

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

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.

There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.