Issey miyake

Issey Miyake—The beauty of life


Issey Miyake was born in 1938.

He trained as a graphic designer in Tokyo and subsequently went to Paris, where he studied couture. In New York he learned about ready-to-wear and showed his first collection in 1971.

Since 1973, he’s presented his own collections around the world.

Issey Miyake was raised in Hiroshima after World War II. He was exposed to the horrors of was and ideals of national regeneration.

Issey Miyake—The beauty of lifeMiyake’s early works were strongly influenced by Japanese tradition.

Source: Issey Miyake & Miyake Design Studio 1970-1985 (in Japanese)


A Piece of Cloth (1976) ‘The cut of a Western

garment is determined by the body, Japanese one by the fabric.’

-- by Issey Miyake

‘Issey Miyake has taught us this essential truth: that clothing is made of a single piece of cloth enveloping a moving body.’—by Arata Isozaki

Source: Issey Miyake Making Things (p33)


Plastic Body (1980)Miyake bustiers have

become a fashion milestone.

Source : Fashion (big photo)

12 Japanese masters

Issey Miyake—The beauty of

lifeRattan Body (1982)Purely futuristic rattan

bodices reminiscent of samurai armor.

Source: 12 Japanese Masters

Issey Miyake—The beauty

of lifeA creation which reveals

its beauty not by accentuating the body but by the movement of the fabric: Issey Miyake 1983

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The Pleats was the principal element of the Issey Miyake collection of 1988. It was not until 1993 that the Pleats Please Issey Miyake line of practical, comfortable, playful clothes was launched commercially.

Dancers from the Frankfurt Ballet in Pleats, 1991

Source: Issey Miyake Making Things (p24-25)


Miyake’s featherlight, machine washable, non-crease polyester ‘Pleats Please’ line, introduced in 1993, was an instant success and proved to ideal for traveling.

Source : 20th CenturyFashion (p255)

Spring/Summer 1994


Lantern procession: every movement brings delicate animation to these cleverly pleated dresses from Issey’s Flying saucer collection of 1992, so reminiscent of childhood lanterns.

Source : Fashion The Century of the Designer 1900-1999


lifeShell(1994)


Bouncing dressSpring/summer collection 1994


of lifeGuest artist series

1996Work with Yasumasa

Morimura

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Textiles by Makiko Minagawa

1984 and 1987

Source : Issey Miyake Making Things (p44)


lifeA new development

Miyake took motifs from the arts, then his creation became artworks themselves.

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life• Green Queen

A-POC 1999

Source: Radical Fashion

(p117)


‘Just before’ and ‘A-POC King & Queen’ Issey Miyake making things.(2000)

Source : Radical Fashion (p114-115)


life

A-POC One Piece (2001)

Source: Radical Fashion (p113)


lifePleats Please promotional

images(2000-2001)


Issey Miyake—

The beauty of life

Torrents (crushing technique), autumn/winter collection 1992

Source : Issey Miyake Making Things


Papier de Bonbon (crumpling and press technique), spring/summer collection 1992


Issey Miyake—The beauty of lifeDunes (Shrinking technique), spring/summer collection 1998Source : Issey Miyake Making Things


of lifeTwist (twisting

technique), spring/summer collection 1992

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Things


life• Tubed veil (partial

shrinking technique), spring/summer collection



lifeJust before (clothes

produced from a tube of knit), spring/summer collection 1998


Issey Miyake—The beauty of lifeStarburst (pressing technique), autumn/winter collection 1998Source : Issey Miyake Making Things

Issey Miyake—The beauty of lifeReference:

Herve,Chandes. (editor) (1999). Issey Miyake Making Things, Zurich-Berlin- New York: Fondation Cartier pour I’art Contempotain.

Issey Miyake & Miyake Design Studio 1970-1985 (in Japanese)

Saiki, Maggie Kinser. (2002). 12 Japanese Masters, New York: Graphis Inc.

Wilcox, Claire. (2001). Radical Fashion. London : V&A Publics. Seeling, Charlotte. 1999: Fashion - The Century of the designer 1900-

1999. Spain: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.

Mendes, Valerie .1999: 20th Century Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson

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You have to put life into your work. The ‘beauty of life’, which is most appropriate. Associated with a slightly daring sort of humor!

by Issey Miyake

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