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The award-winning Japanese designer was known for his colorful silk fabrics and technical innovations in fabric development.
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died at the age of 84. He succumbed to liver cancer on August 5, his office announced.
Since the 1970s, Miyake has pursued the concept of making clothing from a single piece of fabric. His designs with innovative silhouettes and heavily pleated fabrics are famous. This is how his sensational collections “Pleats Please” and “A-POC” came about.
Colorful, silky soft and playful
Born in Hiroshima, Miyake studied in Tokyo and Paris. He presented his first collection in New York in 1970.
In 2005 he was honored for his life’s work with the Japanese “Praemium Imperiale”, which is also considered the Nobel Prize for the Arts. A year later he was awarded the Kyoto Prize for his visionary clothing concepts.
The Kyoto Prize, established in 1984 by Kazuo Inamori, the founder of the Japanese technology group Kyocera, is one of the most important awards in the field of science and culture, alongside the Nobel Prize.