Science & Tech Quote by Issey Miyake

Miyake’s genius was always in refusing the fashion industry’s favorite lie: that the finished garment arrives by magic, sprung fully formed from a lone visionary. Here, he points the camera straight at the labor, the odd choreography, the almost comic insistence of the verb: twist, twist, twist. It’s not poetry for poetry’s sake; it’s a manufacturing mantra. The repetition mimics the handwork itself, turning process into rhythm, and rhythm into credibility.

The line “not just pleats” is doing quiet cultural work. Pleats, in Western fashion talk, can sound like a decorative flourish or a prim school-uniform detail. Miyake’s pleats are something else: engineered texture, movement you can wear, a democratic kind of elegance that survives real life. When he describes multiple people twisting together, he’s reframing authorship. The signature “Miyake” look becomes collective, not solitary, and that’s a subtle rebuke to luxury’s obsession with the singular genius and the spotless atelier myth.

Then comes the wonderful friction of “put it all in the machine to cook it.” Cooking is domestic, human-scale; the machine is industrial. Miyake collapses them into one sentence, which is basically his whole design philosophy: high concept with ordinary usability, craft fused to technology, sculpture that can be rolled into a suitcase.

Context matters: Pleats Please and his pleating innovations weren’t about nostalgia for handcraft. They were about inventing a future where clothing is light, resilient, and kinetic - and where the story of how it’s made is part of its beauty.