TCM would like to say Congratulations to the designers of Issey Miyake for being the Designer of the Month. Issey Miyake is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances. Mr. Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan and founded the Miyake Design Studio after returning to Tokyo in 1970. He began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production.

With that said, here is a little background on how he started his career. In the late 1980’s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. This eventually resulted in a new technique called garment pleating and in the 1993 Pleats Please in which the garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric’s memory’ holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to-wear.

Issey Miyake “oversees the overall direction of all lines created by his company”, even though the individual collections have been designed by his staff since his retirement from the fashion world in 1997.

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. The scent was followed by L’eau d’Issey Pour Homme (for men) in 1994. Every year since 2007, Issey Miyake has brought out a “limited time only” fragrance for ladies in which he brings in a “guest” perfumer. In 2007, he launched ‘Drop on a Petal’, and in 2008 he launched ‘Reflections in a Drop’. A new Issey Miyake men’s fragrance, L’eau d’Issey Pour Home Intense, was introduced at Nordstrom in the United States in 2007, with a larger worldwide rollout following in September 2007.

 

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