Issey Miyake Quotes

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

You wear nothing but you wear it so well.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

I have always loved fashion and feel it's another way to express my creativity. It's art and beauty combined.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.

I want to dress well. I want to look good.

I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

I'm into nice clothes and trying to look good.

Not all black T-shirts are created equal.

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.