For Issey Miyake, the quietly transgressive Japanese designer who passed away in August, everything began and ended with fabric. Through technical innovation and novel technique, his early work ...

Following the news of Issey Miyake's death, we've highlighted seven projects created by the Japanese fashion designer over his five-decade-long career.

Issey Miyake in Paris, 1980 [Photo: Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images] ... designed to be worn by all ages and body shapes in natural easy-to-care fabric.

These days, Miyake's revolutionary pleats grace a whole lot more than just trousers and jackets. The Japanese designer—or, at least, the brand that bears his name—also applies the same method ...

Issey Miyake, one of the first Japanese designers to show in Paris, whose pleated style of clothing allowed for freedom of movement and whose name became a global byword for cutting-edge fashion ...

One of the most recognizable Issey Miyake house codes today is the pleated fabrication. In the late '80s, he began experimenting with new methods of pleating, and in 1993, the Pleats Please line ...

PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE is celebrating its 30th birthday this year, and in honor of the visionary womenswear line, the Japanese fashion House turns to movement.. Speaking on the line, the brand ...

Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer known for his future-thinking design, died earlier this month after a bout with cancer at the age of 84, though his passing was only publicly announced this ...

Issey Miyake “Enclothe,” modular designs made with linen, silk, washi, wool, and triacetate, is designed for endless possibilities. Skip to content. OCTOBER 27, 2022. Instagram Facebook Youtube.

In this, Miyake’s approach to design was innately humane, a quality that was no doubt influenced by his life experiences. As a child growing up in Hiroshima, he survived the atomic bomb dropped ...

Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and was aged seven when the US detonated an atomic bomb over the city on 6 August 1945. He previously said in a letter to former US president Barack Obama in ...

Issey Miyake’s greatest legacy will always be his turtlenecks. In the 1990s, the humble black turtleneck saw a fashion revival in an unlikely place: on Apple founder Steve Jobs.