Issey Miyake
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Issey Miyake 1938-, Japanese fashion designer, b. Hiroshima, grad. Tama Art Univ., Tokyo, 1964. He came to Paris in 1965 and designed for Guy Laroche (1966-68) and Givenchy (1968-69) before moving to New York City and Geoffrey Beene (1969-70). Miyake opened his own design studio in 1970, and quickly established a reputation for an avant-garde approach with his fluid, unstructured designs in unusual, texturally varied natural and synthetic fabrics. Influenced by both traditional Japanese and Western design, particularly the work of Vionnet , his stylized garments are often layered and loose, wrapped and tied around the body in a variety of geometric configurations. Since working with the Frankfurt Ballet in 1988, Miyake also has used many kinds of pleated fabrics in a number of inventive designs.
Bibliography: See I. Miyake et al., Issey Miyake: Making Things (1999); studies by M. Holborn (1996) and L. Benaim et al. (1997); photographic study by I. Penn (1999).
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