Iconic is the long-sleeved black turtleneck designed by Issey Miyake for Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple.
Only works of a creative life of five decades remain: o Issey Miyake, battled liver cancer and succumbed, aged 84. Honoring his artistic legacy, Dezeen has highlighted seven key projects by the Japanese fashion designer.
Born in Hiroshima, he became interested in design when he discovered the Peace and West Peace Bridges on the Honkawa River designed by artist and designer Isamu Noguchi in his hometown. In 1970 he founded the Issey Miyake Group and the Miyake Design Studio. In his career he launched many brands including Pleats Please, A-POC and Bao Bao. He was an advocate of collaboration and worked closely with creators himself, including bamboo artist Shochikudo Kosuge, photographer Irving Penn and designer Tokujin Yoshioka.
The project to create the Pleats Please brand in 1993 is considered a key to Miyake’s artistic journey. The brand showcased an innovative pleating technique that was also a trademark of the fashion designer.In 2009, Tokujin Yoshioka renovated the Pleats Please boutique in Tokyo, covering its interior with recycled aluminum panels originally intended for car parts.
In 1992, Miyake was commissioned to design the uniforms of Lithuanian sportsmen and women for the independent country’s first Olympic participation – the Barcelona Olympics – after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He then expanded the order and created a pleated collection in the colors of the flags of many countries. Each creation bears on the headgear and the back of the jacket the colors of the flags and the names of the countries, as seen in a retrospective exhibition hosted in 2016 by the National Arts Center in Tokyo.
The Bao Bao bag was first introduced in 2000 and is synonymous with the house of Miyake. Its shape is the typical shape of a shopping tote bag, and both this and its name are a tribute to Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum designed by architect Frank Gehry. It also highlights the origami-style material folding innovations that Miyake became famous for.
The ‘King and Queen’ collection was created in 1997 for the A-POC (A Piece of Clothing) brand by Miyake and Dai Fujiwara: from an industrial loom, a continuous topi with seams that outlined garments, shirts, socks, gloves and hats; customers were encouraged to cut at the seams to reveal their garments and use scissors to adjust them on themselves. This particular collection was among those exhibited in 2010 as part of the ‘Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ exhibition at the Barbican.
Iconic is the long-sleeved black turtleneck that Issey Miyake designed for Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple; it is said that Jobs had about 100 in his wardrobe. It was designed by Miyake when Jobs commissioned him, in the early 1980s vest for Apple employees. The company’s staff reacted and Steve Jobs asked the designer to design a garment for him.
The Flying Saucer Dress by Miyake Design Studio was presented as part of the show for the Spring-Summer 1994 collection; it has a shape reminiscent of a paper lantern and Miyake’s patented polyester pleated construction technique allows the creation to compress, flatten, it stretches, which makes it overflow and bounce when worn. It was exhibited in 2016 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of the ‘Manus x Machina’ exhibition, which explored the impact of technology on fashion.
In 1982, for the Spring-Summer collection, Issey Miyake and bamboo craftsman Shochikudo Kosuge, in collaboration with artist Emi Fukuzawa, created bodices and hats from rattan and bamboo, which were designed to follow and emphasize the topography of the body . Exhibited in 2016 as part of the exhibition ‘The Work of Issey Miyake’ at the National Art Center in Tokyo, the dolls were designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, a longtime collaborator of Issey Miyake.
At the link https://www.instagram.com/p/ChFOLs7uHWA/ it is possible to have an image of the Flying Saucer Dress, the Pleats Please brand, the “King and Queen” collection and her rattan and bamboo bodices and hats Spring-Summer 1982 collection.
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