Issey Miyake was born upon April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. He matured in a city that had actually been devastated by the atomic bomb, an experience that would deeply influence his work as a stylist.
Miyake studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo before moving to Paris in the 1960s to study haute couture. He worked for designers such as Individual Laroche as well as Givenchy before releasing his own style tag, Miyake Style Workshop, in Tokyo in 1970.
Miyake promptly got recognition for his innovative approach to haute couture. He trying out unusual materials as well as methods, such as pleating, and also challenged conventional ideas of beauty and also form. His styles commonly bundled elements of traditional Japanese apparel, such as kimono-style shapes and also origami-like folds.
In the 1980s, Miyake introduced his iconic fragrance, L'Eau d'Issey, which came to be an instantaneous standard and also established him as a significant pressure in the style and also elegance markets.
Throughout his career, Miyake has been dedicated to sustainability and also ethical fashion methods. He has actually created groundbreaking innovations for fabric production and also pioneered making use of recycled products in vogue style. He has additionally been associated with many philanthropic initiatives, especially in the locations of disaster relief as well as ecological conservation.
Today, Miyake is thought about one of the most prominent designer of his generation. His ingenious technique to layout, commitment to sustainability, and also sustaining tradition remain to influence brand-new generations of stylist around the world.
Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Issey, under the main topics: Computers - Design.
"To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used"
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else"
"I have worked with several dance companies"
"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it"
"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start"
"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric"
"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"
"By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14"
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture"
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked"
"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh"
"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse"
"I very much like dance and dancers"
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"
"Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process"
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"
