the Japanese designer Issey Miyake died at the age of 84 of liver cancer. He became famous for his pleated style of clothes that never wrinkle and also for the production of the iconic black turtleneck sweater from Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs he made friends with Miyake in the early 1980s and asked him to make him black turtleneck sweaters. The designer sent “a hundred of them,” Jobs is said to have said. “I have enough to last me for the rest of my life.”
Miyake was born in Hiroshima. He was seven years old and was in a classroom when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. The stylist has never been one who remembers what happened or talks about his experience.
After studying graphics at an art university in Tokyo, she studied fashion design in Paris. You worked with giants Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy before moving to New York. In 1970 she returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio.
In the late 1980s, he developed a new way of doing things fold wrap the fabrics between layers of paper and place them in a heat press. Tested for its freedom of movement on dancers, this led to the development of their signature line “Pleats, Please”.
Miyake developed more than a dozen fashion lines that also included bags, watches and perfumes. In 2016, when asked about the challenges future designers face, he told the British newspaper “Guardian” that people are likely to consume less, a big trend for those who make clothes to last.
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