Issey Miyake

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology.

My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.

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.

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