Issey Miyake Quotes

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

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

The hat is the common headgear of the Turkish people, and the government forbids habits to the contrary.

You can’t undo a thousand years of history by sending military troops into a country.

Deep down, the ordinary Frenchman doesn't believe that Turks, or Eastern Europeans for that matter, cherish the values he holds most dear. Nor do the French much trust that the Germans and the British have French interests at heart. Given European history -- and given what I see around me -- I can't say I blame them.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

You need to figure out other societies, where they came from, what the people believe in, what they do, how their ethnic divisions work, which is often very different from our own; then design your policies around that. Pay attention. I think that's the simple answer, which is just to realize that not everybody is like the United States. Whether you study history or sociology, or anthropology, journalism, there's room for seeing there are other cultures and other ways and other structures.

No work of history can ever escape its own time...we are all influenced by what we read and what we experience.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.