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How Issey Miyake Stays Creative


Since handing over runway duties in 1999 to Naoki Takizawa (and now Yoshiyuki Miyamae), Japanese designer Issey Miyake  has designed everything from collapsible lamps to living room chairs. Perhaps nothing provides more of a creative outlet than 21_21 Design Sight, a small museum in Tokyo’s Roppongi neighborhood that he opened in 2007. 21_21 Design Sight…

Issey Miyake And MT Zebra Masking Tape


Issey Miyake and mt Masking Tape collaborate to design masking tape inspired by Issey Miyake’s Spring Summer 2014 collection. The zebra motif of the clothing collection is apparent in the tape that decorates Issey Miyake’s store in Aoyama, Japan. You can visit the store to see and purchase the tape. Issey Miyake is exclusive to…

Issey Miyake for Artemide


Issey Miyake has collaborated with Italian lighting company Artemide to develop a series of experimental, eco-friendly lamps that employ a re-treated fabric derived from recycled plastic bottles. Miyake developed the new material for the lamps using a 3D mathematical process — each lamp is created from a single piece of cloth that manages diffuse light in unexpected…

Issey Miyake 2014 Autumn Winter Collection


Longtime fashion stalwart Issey Miyake presented its collection for Autumn Winter 2014 at Paris Fashion Week last week. The show saw the Japanese brand playing with both texture and surreal patterning for the new season, executing flowing pieces tinged with a digitized psychedelica. The silhouettes here – trousers, blazers, quilted outerwear – reflected a more…

Future Beauty: 30 Years Of Japanese Fashion At Barbican Art Gallery, London


Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present, held at Barbican ArtGallery in London. Japanese fashion made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late 20th century and designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei…