Issey Miyake Quotes

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

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

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

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

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

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

It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

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

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

I design some of my own clothes now.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.