Top 15 Issey Miyake Quotes (2024 Update)

Issey Miyake Quote: “Work for money, design for love.”

1. “Work for money, design for love.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.”

2. “Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “The purpose – where I start – is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it’s reuse.”

3. “The purpose – where I start – is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it’s reuse.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Issey Miyake Quote: “I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.”

5. “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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Issey Miyake Quote: “Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.”

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

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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Issey Miyake Quote: “I very much like dance and dancers.”

10. “I very much like dance and dancers.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “Well, what I’m doing is really clothing. I’m not doing sculpture.”

11. “Well, what I’m doing is really clothing. I’m not doing sculpture.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.”

14. “A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”

15. “By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.”

16. “I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.”

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Issey Miyake Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Issey Miyake Quote: “I have worked with several dance companies.”

18. “I have worked with several dance companies.”

— Issey Miyake

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