Genius and innovative, artist and revolutionary. This is how the world remembers the legendary Japanese designer Issei Miyake, whose death was learned this morning. It has never been at the forefront of the fashion industry but has always worked for the future. He treated clothes as an art object that evokes emotions.
Issei Miyake was one of Tokyo’s avant-garde designers who emerged in the distant 70s. During this time, he managed to go beyond all possible boundaries, destroy stereotypes and transform clothes beyond recognition. Issei Miyake never followed trends, tried to do something on his own. “How can you be so creative? Trend Union general manager Lee Edelkoort said of Miyake, “It’s incredible how our contemporary has created a unique blend of refinement, colour, shape, cutting-edge technology and attention to fabrics.”
He created many iconic pieces in almost half a century in the fashion industry and influenced a new generation of designers. For example, Jonathan Anderson recently shared with Business of Fashion that the designer has always been obsessed with his creativity and how he can work with completely different people.
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To commemorate the legendary designer, we decided to collect five brilliant pieces of his authorship and tell you about them.
pleated things
In the late 80’s, Issei Miyake began experimenting with fabric and introduced the pleated products to the world, which later became the brand’s hallmark. To achieve the desired result, the designer placed the finished products between two sheets of thin paper, compressed under the action of steam, while maintaining its original shape. In 1993, Issei Miyake launched the brand Pleats Please, dedicated to pleated garments.
Legendary A-POC series
This mysterious abbreviation stands for A Piece of Cloth (“Piece of Cloth”) and refers to a principle based on a person’s connection to the fabric itself. The personification of this philosophy was clothes, as if cut from a single piece of matter with the help of computer technology. “My clothes are not clothes without the creativity of those who wear it,” Miyake says, implying that nothing works without imagination.
plastic corset
A corset made of plastic in the modern world does not surprise anyone, but in the 1980s it was a real breakthrough. In his 1980 fall-winter collection, Issei Miyake presented this sculptural experiment to the public for the first time. The designer worked on its creation for almost five years, experimenting with traditional and new techniques. The result is a corset made of molded, fiber-reinforced plastic that accurately follows the curves of the female body.
Throated Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ favorite thing in his wardrobe was a black turtleneck, which he almost always wore. The love for this wardrobe staple began in 1990, when Jobs visited the Sony office in Japan and saw what employees were wearing. He then turned to Issei Miyake with a request to do the same for himself and his team. True, the idea of wearing only a black turtleneck in the Apple team did not take root, so the developed uniform was associated with Jobs. In her wardrobe there were about a hundred identical black models.
Bag Bao Bao
In 2000, Miyake launched the Bao Bao Issey Miyake sub-brand, which consists of bags, suitcases and wallets in its collection. The brand’s first product was the Bao Bao bag, which even the most unfashionable person could see. The accessory was covered with a layer of mosaic triangular PVC panels. In this way, the bag can easily change shape and even size. By the way, with this invention, Issei Miyake wanted to pay tribute to the architect Frank Gehry, who created buildings of unusual shapes.
Source: People Talk
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