
Issey Miyake
Fashion / Textile — historical
, JapanThe story
He treated a dress as an engineering problem, pleating polyester into featherlight architecture — clothing folded flat like origami and sprang alive on the body. Fused technology and craft to invent Pleats Please and A-POC, garments engineered from single threads and heat-set pleats.
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