Issey Miyake Quotes

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

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

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

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

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

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

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