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.
Issey Miyake Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 22nd April, 1938 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Profession: | Fashion Designer |
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Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his most iconic product worldwide. He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. After graduation, he worked in Paris and New York City. Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he founded the Miyake Design Studio, a high-end producer of women's fashion. In 2005, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture. He won the Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize in 2006.
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