By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

- 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

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

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

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

- Issey Miyake

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

- 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

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

- Issey Miyake