1938 — 2022
three years later. Miyake reportedly wanted to be a dancer or athlete when he was young - but that changed after he read his sister’s fashion magazines.
He studied graphic design at a Tokyo art university and then moved to Paris in the 1960s, where he worked with lauded fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy.
Miyake moved to New York for a short time, before heading back to Tokyo in 1970 to open the Miyake Design Studio.
By the 1980s he was celebrated as one of the world’s most pioneering designers as he worked with materials
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Lautoka from plastic to metal - and also traditional Japanese material and paper. He developed a new way of pleating fabric by wrapping it between layers of paper in a heat press.
It was a phenomenal success - various tests proved the pleats stayed in place and didn’t wrinkle, and it lead to his signature line called Pleats, Please.
Miyake’s distinctive Bao Bao line of bags, recognisable for their small resin triangles, was celebrated for its engineering and was so popular that knock-offs flooded the fake designer market. He became known for creating a style that was high-tech yet practical and comfortable, and was a household name in not only Japan’s fashion industry - but on the global catwalk.
His fashion house developed highly sought-after clothes for men and women, as well as bags, watches and perfumes - a bottle of L’Eau d’Issey, launched in 1992, was rumoured to sell every 14 seconds.
Miyake was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for his dedication to the arts in 2006, and received the Order of Culture in 2010 for “remarkable accomplishments” in Japan’s culture and arts.