Issey Miyake
Fused technology and craft to invent Pleats Please and A-POC, garments engineered from single threads and heat-set pleats.
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Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, notably the Pleats, Please line, exhibitions and fragrances such as L'eau d'Issey.
He treated a dress as an engineering problem, pleating polyester into featherlight architecture — clothing folded flat like origami and sprang alive on the body.
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Issey Miyake
profileFashion / Textile — historical
Fused technology and craft to invent Pleats Please and A-POC, garments engineered from single threads and heat-set pleats.
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