Daily Inspiration Quote by Issey Miyake

Miyake is arguing for a kind of optimism that isn’t motivational-poster fluff but studio logic: you don’t begin with a slogan, you begin with a test. “Find first the possibility to make it” is the designer’s version of moral seriousness. Before the grand concept, there’s the stubborn question of fabrication - what can a material actually do, what can a process survive, what can a body wear? It’s a rebuke to fashion as pure image-making, and it doubles as a defense of craft in an industry that loves to outsource difficulty.

The line “Research is first” reads almost anti-romantic, yet the subtext is intensely human. Curiosity isn’t a personality trait here; it’s a prerequisite for discovery. If you’re not interested, you “never can find something” because invention isn’t lightning, it’s attention sustained long enough to notice the weird edge cases. Miyake’s work - from pleating innovations to textile experimentation - has always treated the garment as a problem to solve, not just a silhouette to sell.

Then comes the quietly radical bit: “Many things happen from forgotten machines.” That’s not nostalgia, it’s an ethics of salvage. Innovation, he suggests, doesn’t only come from new tech; it can come from abandoned tools, obsolete industrial processes, the overlooked infrastructure of making. In a culture obsessed with the next upgrade, Miyake points to the afterlife of objects - and to designers as archaeologists, digging value out of what capitalism has already declared dead.