S.and he left on August 5th, but the news was released only today. Issey Miyake died at the age of 84 in a hospital in Tokyo, struck down by hepatocellular carcinoma. The creative founder of the Issey Miyake group and the Miyake Design Studio, who retired from the stage in 1999, leaves an immense void in the world of fashion.
From Japan to the whole world
Born in Hiroshima on April 22, 1938, Issey Miyake lived closely the terrible experience of the atomic bomb, a traumatic event that will lead the designer to always look forward, to the future, in every garment and material. After graduating in graphic design from Tama Art University Studio in Tokyo and graduating in 1964, Miyake moved to Paris, where he worked with Guy Laroche And Hubert de Givenchy. In New York he collaborated with Geoffrey Beene and in 1970 he returned to Tokyowhere the Miyake Design Studio.
A deeply avant-garde designer, Miyake was one of the first to design garments genderlessto underline the importance of a production sustainable fashionunderstand the importance of technology applied to clothes. His perfumes became a staggering success, making Miyake a celebrity. In 1999 she finally retired from the stage, while continuing to deal with art and supervise the collections of her brand.
A look from the Issey Miyake Fall-Winter 2022-23 collection
The ingenious invention of Pleats Please
Issey Miyake’s most innovative and long-lived creation remains the pleated, the polyester fabric created to make pleating indestructible, despite washing in the washing machine, creasing and traveling in a suitcase. Technique becomes his trademark, applied to dresses, T-shirts and trousers, season after season, establishing itself as a timeless classic.
«I always start from the choice of tissue to design something that needs to be worn. This also happens with the pleats but we are talking about very basic fabrics: the process is the same and the pleats they arrive last in the creative process. They are designed to hug the body, hiding or emphasizing the aspects I want. This has been possible thanks to technology, ”Issey Miyake once said.
According to the designer’s wishes, there will be no funerals or commemorations.
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