Issey Miyake

Born in Hiroshima in 1938 and a survivor of the atomic bombing, Issey Miyake studied graphic design at Tama Art University before moving to Paris in 1965 to train at the Chambre Syndicale, then assisting Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. He worked for Geoffrey Beene in New York and returned to Tokyo in 1970 to found the Miyake Design Studio, presenting his first Paris collection in 1973. Across five decades he pursued one-piece-of-cloth construction, computer-controlled pleating with the Pleats Please line, the A-POC project with Dai Fujiwara and, in 2000, the spinoff accessory line BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE built on a triangular tessellated mesh. He passed away in 2022, leaving the studio system to continue his research.