By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

- Issey Miyake

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 peopl…

- Issey Miyake

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

- Issey Miyake

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

- Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

- Issey Miyake

The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energ…

- Issey Miyake

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

- Issey Miyake

Work for money, design for love.

- Issey Miyake

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.…

- Issey Miyake