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Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

~Issey Miyake

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

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I am very interested in the culture of paper.

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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.

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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.

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I am most interested in people and the human form.

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Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.

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All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

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I believe that all forms of creativity are related.

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A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Designer

Born: April 22nd, 1935

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