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About Him…•Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1938.

• He established the Miyake Design Studio in 1970 and started to show his line at the Paris Collections in 1973.

•Miyake's basic tenets for making clothes has always been the idea of creating a garment from 'one piece of cloth', and the exploration of the space between the human body and the cloth that covers it. •His approach to design has always been to strike a consistent balance between tradition and innovation, handcrafts and new technology.

INSPIRATION

Wissey Miyake’s style is best known for its blend of flowing fabrics and designs of Eastern style with the technology and modern sensibilities of Western style. Using a wide array of both natural and synthetic materials, Miyake likes to be seen as an artist rather than a designer, developing new ways to utilize both function and form in his designs. In addition to his Pleats Please line, Miyake is known for his development of A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) – a single piece of ready to wear clothing – various perfume, home furnishing, and hosiery products.

•Mr. Miyake "oversees the overall direction of all lines created by his company", even though the individual collections have been designed by his staff since his 'retirement' from the fashion world in 1997.

•Issey Miyake - Main collection line, subdivided into men (since 1978/85) and women (since 1971) collections, designed by Dai Fujiwara (succeeded Naoki Takizawa in 2006).

•Issey Miyake Fête - Colorful women's line that "draws on the technological innovations of Pleats Please" (Fête means 'celebration' in French (since 2004)

•Issey Miyake * Issey Miyake Permanente * Asha by MDS * Issey Miyake Plantation (men's wear) * Issey Miyake men*Issey Miyake women* Pleats Please, since 1990 * Issey Miyake Cotton*me issey mivakei/cauliflower

SELECTED PRODUCTS…

•Polyester jersey garments for women that are first "cut and sewn and then pleated. (normally, fabric is first pleated and then cut and sewn) ,to permanently retain washboard rows of horizontal, vertical or diagonal knife-edge pleats (since 1989/93).

HaaT - women's line, designed by Miyake's former textile designer, Makiko Minagawa. HaaT means 'village market' in sanskrit, the word sound similar to 'heart' in English(since 2000).

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AWARDS…•1974 - Japan Fashion Editors Club award.

•1976,1984 - Mainichi Newspaper Fashion award.•1979 - Pratt Institute Design Excellence award, New York.•1983 - Council of Fashion Designers of America award.

•1985 - Fashion Oscar, Paris.•1989 - Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix.•1989 - Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres', France.•1992 - Asahi prize.

•1993 - Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London.•1991 - Hiroshima Art prize.

•1993 - Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, Paris.

•1993 - Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix

•1994 - Tokyo Creation award.

•1997 - Shiju Housho from the Japanese Government.

Bodyworks…•1985 - Fashion Without Taboos, Victoria and Albert Museum, London,

•1988 - Á Un, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris,

•1990 - Issey Miyake Pleats Please, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,

•1990 - Ten Sen Men, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,

•1992 - Twist, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum1999 - Making Things, Paris,

Perfumes…

•Issey Miyake also has a line of perfumes. •His first fragrance, the light aquatic-floral L'eau d'Issey for women, was launched in 1992.• The name L'eau d'Issey (engl.: Issey's water) is a pun. In French, it sounds identical to "l'odyssée" (engl. odyssey).The scent was followed by L'eau d'Issey Pour Homme (for men) in 1994. L'eau Bleue d'Issey Pour Homme was introduced in 2004; and it's evolution, L'eau Bleue d'Issey Eau Fraiche was introduced in 2006..

•Every year since 2007, Issey Miyake has brought out a "limited time only" fragrance for ladies in which he brings in a "guest" perfumer.

•In 2007, he launched 'Drop on a Petal', and in 2008 he launched 'Reflections in a Drop'.

•A new Issey Miyake men's fragrance, L'eau d'Issey Pour Homme Intense, was introduced at Nordstrom in the United States in June 2007, with a larger worldwide rollout following in September 2007.

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Harri Koskinen’s minimalist vakio watch for Issey Miyake gets refreshed for the fall with monochromatic colorways and a new dial face

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Issey Miyake Dyson

The collaboration between Issey Miyake and James Dyson will see a limited release of the DC16 in Australia next month.It might seem like an unlikely marriage: a fashion designer and a vacuum cleaner, but this

Issey Miyake's A-POC: A piece of cloth. Issey Miyake unveiled his new line

of clothing in 1999, it expressed a visionary approach to fashion and how it could function in the modern world. The idea was simply, "To clothe the human body with a single piece of cloth" and to "create clothes that anyone could wear." But few designers could have managed such a feat: combining a novel concept, remarkable design, and the advanced materials to make it all possible

In 1999, Miyake unveiled A-POC on the runways of Paris, 23 models walked out in a single dress-literally, 23 dresses linked together by a single piece of cloth. It was an extraordinary statement, and shortly after, the first A-POC store opened its doors in Tokyo, February, 2000. By November that same year, another A-POC store had taken root, this time in Paris

As an exploration into the boundaries of fashion design, Miyake's project has been, to a large degree, a success. With his material ingenuity and keen eye for design, Issey and his studio have brought APOC from mere concept to concrete reality. But to put the A-POC philosophy into practice and to reach a much wider audience is, obviously, a much greater challenge.

Celebrity Interest

Celebrity interest in Issey Miyake brand clothing has been prolific with rappers such as Jay-Z, Twista, and Gorilla Zoe all mentioning the line in their song lyrics. Additionally, the brand name has appeared in music by Pet Shop Boys, on television series such as HBO’s Entourage, and in the Bourne Ultimatum (though the sweater worn by Jason Bourne in the film is inside out).

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