Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake (Japanese三 宅 一生, Miyake Issei, born April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese fashion designer and founder of the eponymous fashion brand. He is known for his techno style. Under the brand name Issey Miyake women's and men 's clothing, accessories, watches and perfumes appear.

Career

Miyake studied at the School of Art Tama graphic design in Tokyo. Even then, he put his focus in apparel design and not fashion. In 1963 he presented his first designs. After graduating in 1964, he left Japan and worked from 1965 in Paris as a designer for fashion designer Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. There he shaped the experiences of the French 68- he motion. In 1969 he moved to New York to work for fashion designer Geoffrey Beene. In 1970 he founded the Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo. In 1971, the first collection of his fashion label, which he presented in New York. In November of the same year the company was formed as Issey Miyake International Inc. ( today only Issey Miyake Inc.). The first men's collection was presented in 1978.

Miyake grew up in Hiroshima. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, he was seven years old. In the attack he lost many family members, his mother died of radiation sickness three years later and he developed a bone marrow disease, due to which he is still lagging today. This experience was that ultimately it for Fashion Design - 've driven - as something modern and Optimistic.

With the Austro -British potter Dame Lucie Rie Miyake shared a friendship since his early years. 1989 organized Miyake for Rie exhibitions in Japan. He was still alive, she bequeathed her large, self- produced collection of ceramic buttons, which he integrated into his creations.

Fashion

Characteristic of Miyake's are colorful silks and lightweight polyester materials, artisanal details, technical innovations in the fields of material development, processing and recycling, since the 1980s, the use of folds of any kind and unusual material forms (eg only a single piece of fabric or composite of many individual pieces of fabric garments ). Miyake lets the buyer most creative freedom while wearing his creations, if they can be draped for example, depending on the body taste. Issey Miyake Fashion is located in the top price segment.

Perfume

1992 together with Beauté Prestige International ( Shiseido ) was the women's perfume L' Eau d' Issey (sounds in French like L' Odyssée ) launched. The counterpart for men, L' Eau d' Issey pour Homme, followed in 1994. Since then it has repeatedly seasonal variations of these two scents given ( for example L' Eau d' Issey Eau d' Été, L' Eau d' Issey pour Homme Intense ). Followed in 1998 by Le Feu d' Issey (women ), 2004 L' Eau Bleu (men) was presented in 2009 came A Scent by Issey Miyake (Women) added. 2008, the anti -aging products La Crème de l' Eau by Issey Miyake and Le fluids de l' Eau by Issey Miyake expanded the cosmetics portfolio.

Designer

After Miyake in 1997 retired from active business and textile research devoted, he has left the various services offered under its name fashion collections designers, and authorizes these days ultimately their designs. In 1999, Naoki Takizawa assistant Miyake ( b. 1960 ) the post of chief designer. It was in 2006 when he founded his own fashion label, replaced by Dai Fujiwara, who worked at the company since 1994. Takizawa was appointed menswear designer Helmut Lang 2010. The house Issey Miyake announced in February 2011 that Fujiwara will give up his post after five years in the spring of 2011. For new women's fashion designer longtime employee Yoshiyuki Miyamae Miyake was appointed. To the men's fashion, Issey Miyake Men, a design team from then cares.

Collections

Current collections

• Issey Miyake - main collection for women (since 1971) and women (since 1978 and in 1985 fully developed ), designed by Dai Fujiwara, since 1973, presented in Paris ( the men's collection was shown from 1998 to 2005 in Milan )
• Pleats Please Issey Miyake - polyester collection for women (since 1993 ), the parts are first cut and sewn and then pleated ( normally one would pleat the fabric first and then cut ) to generate lasting, washboard rows of wrinkles. " Pleats Please " is English and means " pleated folds, please ."
• Issey Miyake Fête - colorful sister collection of Women Main line (since 2004), which takes advantage of the technological innovations of Pleats Please adopt ( Fête is French and means festival / celebration ).
• Haat - designed by Miyake's former fabric designer Makiko Mingawa women's collection with Indian influences ( since 2000). ' Haat ' means ' Dorf-/Marktplatz ' in Sanskrit, in English it sounds like heart ( heart).
• Me Issey Miyake (or Cauliflower in non- Asian region, dt: ' cauliflower ') - women's collection with blouses and shirts in standard size to fit the size of the carrier by Stretch shares and folds in the material and in Japan in plastic tubes in offered machines ( since 2001).
• A- POC Inside - Experimental design collection of the house ( since 1997), developed by Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara. One piece seamless, woven fabric hose can be cut individually by the purchaser to various garments. A- POC is an acronym for "a piece of cloth" ( a piece of cloth ), and sounds in English like " epoch " ( epoch). The formerly independent collection (A -POC ) has been integrated as a fundamental concept in the main collection (A -POC Inside).
• Homme Issey Miyake Pleated - Pleated men's fashion in the style of Pleats Please (since 2013 only in Japan)
• Bao Bao Issey Miyake - accessories collection, mainly handbags (eg Bilbao Bag)
• 132 5 Issey Miyake - From Miyake and his design team since 2010 in collaboration with computer science researchers in June Mitani at 21_21 DESIGN Sight Center presented collection for men and women of flat folded pieces of fabric made ​​from recycled, soft polyester, which, as soon as they lifts, similar to origami, to three-dimensional garments such as dresses, pants or skirts, ' unfold '. The name of the collection says it all: '1 ' stands for a piece of cloth, '2' for the two-dimensional as long as the piece can pick up flat, '3 ' for Dreidemensionalität after lifting and '5' for the numerous variants, the piece ultimately to wear on the body.
• Issey Miyake Watches - Luxury Watches Collection for Men and Women
• IN -EI Issey Miyake - Collection of origami -like collapsible lighting ( since 2013)
• Issey Miyake Parfums - Scented water collection for men and women

Former Collections

• In the product - license collection of clothing and accessories primarily for the Japanese market ( 1980er/90er )
• Plantation - 1981 launched collection of natural organic designs (brand of the A -net group today )
• Issey Miyake Permanente - reissued, timeless classics from previous collections of the main line (from 1985)

Group

The Company Issey Miyake Inc. was founded in 1996 is part of the A -net Inc. ( 2010 sales: 15 billion yen ), to which in addition to the Miyake Design Studio more high-priced, mainly represented in the Japanese market apparel brands such as Tsumori Chisato, sunaokuwahara, Zucca, Ne -net, Final Home, Plantation and mercibeaucoup belong.

Boutiques

In Japan and in other Asian countries, there are numerous Issey Miyake boutiques, perform either all or more or just individual collections of the brand. Otherwise there Miyake stores in London, Toulouse, Zurich, twice in New York, and three times in Paris. Issey Miyake operates a flagship store retail store called ELTTOB TEP Issey Miyake (reverse for English "PET BOTTLE", dt: PET bottle) in Osaka, where all collections are available in elaborately decorated environment. 2011 ELTTOB TEP was opened shop in the Tokyo Ginza. In New York City the tribeca Issey Miyake flagship store offers equally to all collections. 2009, the 24 Issey Miyake shop concept was presented for Japanese department stores, where the goods can pick up not on the shelf, but on a collection of vertical, narrow metal rods. In 2010, in Tokyo's Aoyama a 132 5 Issey Miyake Ladies Boutique inaugurated, responsible for the design of the Japanese architect Tokujin Yoshioka records. In November 2013, the next door also designed by Yoshioka Reality Lab Issey Miyake its doors, where the men's collections from 132 5th and Homme Blinds and brands Bao Bao (bags ) and in- egg ( lights ) opened are offered.

Other activities

• 21-21 Design Sight (similar to the English expression "20/20 vision" for wholly owned eyesight ) is a designed by Tadao Ando, museum -like research center for design, which was opened in March 2007 in Roppongi, Tokyo. The center is supported by Issey Miyake and four other Japanese designers ( graphic designer Taku Satoh, industrial designer Nato Fukasawa and design journalist Noriko Kawakami ) managed and operated by Foundation Issey Miyake Foundation, which in turn was founded in Tokyo in 2004, exhibitions and events organized and published literature.

• Issey Miyake designed a version of the 2010 Evian water bottle.

Awards

Publications

• East Meets West, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1978
• Issey Miyake Body Works, Shogakukan Publishing, Tokyo, 1983
• Issey Miyake: Making Things ( with co-authors ), Scalo Publishers, Zurich, 1999
• Issey Miyake by Irving Penn, Bulfinch Press, New York City, 1999
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