I Did Not Want To

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

I Have Always Been Interested In Conducting Research That Yielded New Methods By Which To Make Cloth, And In Developing New Materials That Combine Craftsmanship And New Technology. But The Most Important Thing For Me Is To Show That, Ultimately, Technology Is Not The Most Important Tool; It Is Our Brains, Our Thoughts, Our Hands, Our Bodies, Which Express The Most Essential Things.

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

The Purpose - Where I Start - Is The Idea Of Use. It Is Not Recycling, It's Reuse.

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