Issey Miyake was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his best-known product.
25 Facts About Issey Miyake
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Issey Miyake was still living in the city seven years later when the US military dropped an atomic bomb there in August 1945.
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Issey Miyake first disclosed this in 2009, when Barack Obama advocated for global nuclear disarmament.
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Issey Miyake studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964.
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Issey Miyake entered designs into fashion competition at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo.
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Issey Miyake worked with Hubert de Givenchy, drawing 50 to 100 sketches daily.
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Issey Miyake was enrolled in English classes at Columbia University and worked on Seventh Avenue for designer Geoffrey Beene.
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From a young age, Issey Miyake respected artist Isamu Noguchi, whose novelty and sense of fun in his designs inspired Issey Miyake.
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Issey Miyake was inspired by fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet's use of geometric calculations and "a single piece of beautiful cloth".
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Issey Miyake did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with an ultra feather-polyester jersey permanently pleated in a piece named "the Loss of Small Detail" William Forsythe and work on ballet "Garden in the setting".
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Issey Miyake realized that the new method of making clothes fit well in dancers.
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Issey Miyake had a long friendship with Austrian-born pottery artist Dame Lucie Rie.
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Issey Miyake presented him with her archival ceramic buttons, which he integrated into his designs.
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Issey Miyake developed a friendship with Apple's Steve Jobs, who came to him after seeing the uniforms Miyake designed for employees of Sony's factories.
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At Jobs's request, Issey Miyake designed similar vests for Apple employees, but Jobs encountered strong opposition to the idea of a uniform.
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Nonetheless, Issey Miyake went on to produce the black turtlenecks which would become a part of Jobs' signature attire.
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In 1992 Issey Miyake designed the Lithuanian national teams official uniform for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
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Between 1996 and 1999 Issey Miyake collaborated with artists for his Guest Artist series.
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In 1994 and 1999, Issey 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.
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Issey Miyake died of liver cancer on 5 August 2022, at the age of 84.
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Issey Miyake "oversaw 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.
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The scent was followed by L'eau d'Issey Miyake Pour Homme in 1994.
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L'eau Bleue d'Issey Miyake Pour Homme was introduced in 2004; and its evolution, L'eau Bleue d'Issey Miyake Eau Fraiche was introduced in 2006.
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Every year from 2007 on, Issey Miyake brought out a "limited time only" fragrance for ladies, for which he brought in a "guest" perfumer.
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Issey Miyake fragrances are produced under a long-term agreement by the Beaute Prestige International division of Shiseido.