Japanese designer Issey Miyake, known for her pleated garments that never wrinkle and who produced her friend and her signature black turtleneck. Apple Media said on Tuesday, founder Steve Jobs, has passed away. He was 84 years old.
Miyake, who made headlines for Japan’s economic and fashion power during the 1980s, died on August 5 of liver failure. cancerKyodo news agency said. No details are available immediately.
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Known for his practicality, Miyake is said to have wanted to be a dancer or an athlete before reading his sister’s fashion magazines inspired him to change direction – with the early preferences believed to be behind the freedom of movement his clothes allow.
Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in a classroom. He was reluctant to talk about the event in later life. In 2009, writing in the New York Times as part of the campaign for President of the United States at that time Barack Obama to visit the city, he said he didn’t want to be labeled a “designer who survived” after the bomb.
“When I close my eyes, I still see things that no one else can experience,” he wrote, adding that within three years, his mother passed away from radiation Exposure.
Models showcase the creations of Japanese designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae during his Fall/Winter 2019-2020 women’s ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Issey Miyake during Paris Fashion Week in Paris Paris (REUTERS / Stephane Mahe / File Photo)
“I have tried, though unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I focus on clothing design, in part because it is a modern and upbeat creative format. “
After studying graphic design at a Tokyo art university, he studied clothing design in Paris, where he worked with renowned fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy, before moving to New York . In 1970, he returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio.
In the late 1980s, he developed a new way of pleating by wrapping fabrics between the layers of paper and put them into the heat press, so that the clothes retain their pleated shape. Tested on their freedom of movement for the dancers, this led to the development of his signature “Pleats, Please” line.
He eventually developed more than a dozen different fashion lines, from his main Issey Miyake for men and women to bags, watches and fragrances before retiring in 1997 to devote himself to research.
In 2016, when asked what he thought of the challenges future designers face, he pointed out that Guardians newspapers that people would probably consume less of.
“We may have to go through a thinning process. This is very important,” he said.
“In ParisWe call jacket makers – they develop new clothing items – but it’s really the design job to create something that works in real life.”
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