Issey Miyake

The complete Issey Miyake Spring 1995 Ready-to-Wear fashion show now on Vogue Runway.

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How collaboration and constant experimentation defined the late fashion designer’s remarkable career

PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE: CONCEPT Issey Miyake was introduced ‘Pleats’ in 1989, and has been developed every season thereafter. Issey Miyake redesigned concept-the ‘Pleats Please’ were launched i…

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Issey Miyake is known globally for his signature pleats. In the 1980’s he raised the pleat to a new level, achieving a fashion item that was creative yet practical, timeless and of-the-moment, classic yet hi-tech. Such is Miyake’s technical and creative genius. The silk pleated dress below, created in 1990, can be found in the … Continue Reading

A new exhibition in Tokyo explores the strange beauty at the heart of one of fashion’s greatest double acts

An exhibition devoted to Issey Miyake – fashion’s pleat provocateur – is coming to Tokyo

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Issey Miyake Exhibition - National Art Center Tokyo Yayoimotohashi (2016) Issey Miyake uses any and every material so as to create a wide variety of styles of clothing. For example, COLOMBE (SS 1990/91, pictured here) is made with a piece of monofilament polyester cloth cut by a heating method, and the dress is shaped by fastening snap-buttons. The astonishing fact is that there are no threads, needles nor scissors used at all in the manufacturing process. A wholly new breed of clothes…