- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.
- Egyptians
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always looking to the future of making things.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.
- Experiment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is an experiment.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have been buying my women's coats for years.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried never to be defined by my past.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very interested in the culture of paper.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing is to make something. In reality, it's not important that a designer be known by name - you can remain anonymous. Even the status of a designer will undergo changes, I believe.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much like dance and dancers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.
- Dancers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked with several dance companies.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
- Marilyn Monroe
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian clothes are usually tight.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
- Nov 07, 2020
My design is no design.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather look to the future than to the past.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.
- Fabric
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
- Jeans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised I wanted to make clothing which was as universal as jeans and T-shirts.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020