Issey Miyake Quotes

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

My father writes through clothes.

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

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

Ralph Lauren has always had a story. At first, my father told the story just through his designs. Now we're constantly looking for new ways to tell that story through innovation and technology.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.

When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

I create fashion that is memorable.

I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.

I always love trying to put my arms around more people. As a designer, it's a great compliment when people wear your clothes or buy your products, so to do things that are more affordable and have more of a distribution is always very exciting - especially when I can still bring my personality in complete, heavy doses. It's not a diluted version of me; it's a very clear extension of my personality.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.