Japanese fashion designer Issei Miyake has died at the age of 84. He became famous for his pleated clothes that never wrinkle; his designs resembled origami. As the Reuters agency reminds, his Issey Miyake brand, among other things, produced the famous black turtleneck of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
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As a child, Mijake wanted to be an athlete or a dancer, but found a passion for clothes in his sister’s fashion magazines. He studied design in Tokyo and Paris, where he worked with famous designers such as Hubert de Givenchy or the late Guy Laroche. He also worked in New York before returning to Tokyo in 1970, where he founded the Miyake Design Studio.
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Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci wears a model signed Iseei Mijake in a photo from 1990.
In a 2009 op-ed for The New York Times, he wrote that he did not want people to remember him as a “designer who survived” the atomic bomb because he was born in Hiroshima in 1938.
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“When I close my eyes, I still see things that no one should have to go through. I tried, unsuccessfully, to put them behind me and think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and bring beauty and joy,” Mijake wrote, explaining that he was drawn to fashion design “because it is creative, modern and optimistic “.
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S/S 2016 collection. Shot from Paris Fashion Week 2015.
Prêt-à-Porter Printemps/été 1983 fashion show at Paris Fashion Week in 1982.
In the 1980s, he developed a new method of pleating by folding fabrics between layers of paper and then heat-pressing them. His name became synonymous with Japan’s economic growth at the time.
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Spring/Summer 2019. Shot from Paris Fashion Week 2018.
Mijake has created more than a dozen collections of men’s and women’s fashion, including watches and perfumes, under his label Issey Miyake.
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He retired in 1997 and began to devote himself to research.
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