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Issey Miyake (Kazunaru Miyake) was born on 22 April, 1938 in Hiroshima, Empire of Japan, is a Japanese fashion designer (1938–2022). Discover Issey Miyake's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As Kazunaru Miyake
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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April 1938
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Hiroshima, Empire of Japan
Date of death 2022
Died Place Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Issey Miyake (三宅 一生) was a Japanese fashion designer.

He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his best-known product.

1938

Miyake was born Kazunaru Miyake (三宅 一生) on 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima.

1945

He was still living in the city seven years later when the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb there in August 1945.

1964

He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964.

He entered designs into fashion competition at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo.

However, he did not win a competition due to his lack of pattern-making or sewing skills.

After graduation, he enrolled in the Chambre syndicale de la couture parisienne school in Paris and was apprenticed to Guy Laroche as assistant designer.

He also worked with Hubert de Givenchy, drawing 50 to 100 sketches daily.

1969

In 1969, he moved to New York City, where he met artists like Christo and Robert Rauschenberg.

He was enrolled in English classes at Columbia University and worked on Seventh Avenue for designer Geoffrey Beene.

1970

Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he founded the Miyake Design Studio, a high-end producer of women's fashion.

From a young age, Miyake respected artist Isamu Noguchi, whose novelty and sense of fun in his designs inspired Miyake.

He was also inspired by fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet's use of geometric calculations and "a single piece of beautiful cloth".

In Paris, he visited several museums and he mentioned that he was influenced by sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși and Alberto Giacometti.

1980

San Francisco Chronicle fashion editor Sylvia Rubin credits Miyake together with Babette Pinsky with "reinventing" the Mariano Fortuny pleat in the 1980s.

In the late 1980s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production.

The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated.

The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear.

He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with an ultra feather-polyester jersey permanently pleated in a piece named "the Loss of Small Detail" William Forsythe and also work on ballet "Garden in the setting".

Miyake realized that the new method of making clothes fit well in dancers.

After studying how dancers move, he sent 200 to 300 garments for dancers to wear a different one in each performance of The Last Detail.

This led to the development of the Pleats, Please range and inspired him to use dancers to display his work.

He had a long friendship with Austrian-born pottery artist Dame Lucie Rie.

She presented him with her archival ceramic buttons, which he integrated into his designs.

He also developed a friendship with Apple's Steve Jobs, who came to him after seeing the uniforms Miyake designed for employees of Sony's factories.

At Jobs's request, Miyake designed similar vests for Apple employees, but Jobs encountered strong opposition to the idea of a uniform.

Nonetheless, Miyake went on to produce the black turtlenecks which would become a part of Jobs' signature attire.

Jobs said, "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them."

1991

Legendary designer Geoffrey Beene stated that he admired Issey Miyake for Miyake's technique, this in an interview with poet/artist Steven Vita in Veery journal, 1991.

1992

In 1992 Issey Miyake designed the Lithuanian national team's official uniform for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

In March 1992 he was quoted in the International Herald Tribune as saying "Design is not for philosophy—it's for life."

1996

Between 1996 and 1999 Miyake collaborated with artists for his Guest Artist series.

The first collaboration was with the photographer and collage maker Yasumasa Morimura; the other artists were Nobuyoshi Araki, Tim Hawkinson, and Cai Guo-Qiang.

Miyake stated that his intention was not to answer the question "Is fashion art?"

but instead to create an "interactive relationship" between the art and the people who admired it.

By wearing the artworks upon their bodies, the wearers interacted with fashion and art simultaneously.

2009

He first disclosed this in 2009, when Barack Obama advocated for global nuclear disarmament.

As a child, he wanted to become a dancer.

His interest in fashion started by studying his sister's fashion magazines.