Issey Miyake was a fashion designer from Japan. Miyake was born in Hiroshima on April 22, 1938.
Issey Miyake was well-known for his technologically advanced clothing designs, exhibitions, and fragrances, such as L’eau d’Issey, which became his most well-known product.
Miyake defined an era in modern Japanese history, rising to prominence in the 1970s as part of a generation of designers and artists who achieved global acclaim by defining a Japanese vision distinct from the West.
Miyake’s origami-like pleats turned drab polyester into chic. He also used computer technology to weave clothing.
His simple clothing was intended to celebrate the human body, regardless of race, build, size, or age.
Miyake was also a gender role pioneer, asking feminist Fusae Ichikawa to be his model in the 1970s, when she was in her 80s, sending the message that garments must be comfortable and express the natural beauty of real people.
Although he designed clothes that appeared to reach for the spiritual, he never became pretentious, always approving of the T-shirt-and-jeans look.