A must-have book for fashion fans! Showing Issey Miyake's fashion vision
With his boundary-pushing fashion collections, Japanese designer Issey Miyake defies convention and redefines clothing. With his unique blend of poetry and practicality, his work blurs the lines between tradition, modern technology and everyday functionality.
With his boundary-pushing fashion collections, Japanese designer Issey Miyake defies convention and redefines clothing. With his unique blend of poetry and practicality, his work blurs the lines between tradition, modern technology and everyday functionality.
Issey Miyake, the definitive history of Issey Miyake’s clothing from 1902 to 2022, reveals the designer’s vision and audacity. The book explores the texture-driven originality of Miyake’s materials and techniques from early in his career, even before he founded the Miyake Design Studio, covering his material and technical innovations including the ‘one piece of cloth’ concept, the 1982 ‘body collection’, the Miyake pleat collection, and designs such as Pleats Please.
Stunning photographs capture the everyday originality of Issey Miyake's clothes and paint an unprecedented, personal portrait of his ambitions and inspirations. A must-have for designers, students and fashion lovers, this is a timeless tribute to one of the most innovative makers of our time.
