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DESIGNERS-ISSEY MIYAKE
He is best known for combining Eastern and Western elements in his work. Pleats Please is his iconic line.
He studied fashion at a renowned dressmaking school in Paris, and studied under some of fashions great designers such as; Geoffrey Beene and Hubert de Givenchy.
In 1964 he graduated from the University of Tokyo. In 1965 he moved to Paris to study design at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. In 1966 he left to work as an assistant designer at Guy Laroche. In 1971 he founded the Issey Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo.He also opened a boutique at Bloomingdales in New York.
During the 70's while still based in Tokyo, Miyake began to show his collections twice a year in Paris and they rapidly became fashion shows.
In 1976 he presented 12 black american girls to showcase his designs in Osaka which were seens by 15,000 people.
In the late 80s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating, He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with pleats in a piece named 'the Loss of Small Detail " William Forsythe and also work on ballet " Garden in the setting ".
Like many fashion designers, Issey Miyake also has a line of perfumes. His first fragrance, the light aquatic-floral L'eau d'Issey for women, was launched in 1992.
In 1994 and 1999, Miyake turned over the design of the men's and women's collections respectively, to his associate, Naoki Takizawa, so that he could return to research full-time. In 2007, Naoki Takizawa opened his own brand, supported by the Issey Miyake Group and was replaced, as a Creative Director of the House of Issey Miyake, by Dai Fujiwara.
When Issey Miyake entered university and obtained Western magazines, he was inspired by the fashion photographs of Richard Avedon.