Issey Miyake - fashion designer

who he is.
三宅一生（1938年4月22日－）为日本的著名服装设计师，他以极富工艺创新的服饰设计与展览而闻名于世。

生于日本广岛县广岛市，1964年毕业于东京多摩美术大学平面设计系，毕业后曾在巴黎和纽约工作，1968年先是和纪梵希一起工作，不久，他又为纽约的高夫莱比恩工作。1970年回到东京，并成立了三宅设计事务所。

1980年代后期，三宅一生开始试验一种制作新型褶状纺织品的方法，这种织料不仅使穿戴者感觉灵活和舒适，并且生产和保养也更为简易。这种新型的技术最后被称为三宅褶皱(也称一生褶)，而子品牌Pleats Please也于1993年创建。制作这种织物时，需先将布料裁剪和缝纫成型，再夹入纸层之中，压紧并热熨，褶皱就形成了，并且会一直保持着。

1994到1999年间，三宅一生先后将男士与女士品牌的设计工作交于他的合作人泷泽直己，自己则抽身做起全职的研究。2007年，泷泽直己在三宅一生组织的支持下创建了自己的品牌，并且由藤原大接替设计总监的位置

Issey Miyake, born 22 April 1938) is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his most well-known product.

ISSEY MIYAKE : CONCEPT

Issey Miyake debuted his first collection in New York in 1971 and began participating in Paris Fashion Week from 1973. His unique concept of clothing as “A Piece Of Cloth” was widely acclaimed throughout the world from the very beginning. An inexhaustible explorer, he has continued to open up new horizons for making clothes through research, experimentation and development while reimagining the relationship between the human body and clothing.
With a resolute determination of moving ever forward, Miyake has brought forth several epoch-making outcomes, including original pleated pieces from 1989, which would later develop into PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE, and the basic idea and process of A-POC in 1997, this time in collaboration with Dai Fujiwara, which would soon evolve into a design solution called A-POC INSIDE which was incorporated into the ISSEY MIYAKE collections as well as in all other brands owned by the ISSEY MIYAKE group.

Placing a high value on fostering various human resources and innovative technologies in the industry since the foundation of the brand, Miyake's spirit of making things has been passed on to a new generation of designers, past and present.
It is Yoshiyuki Miyamae and his team of designers at the helm of the ISSEY MIYAKE Women's collection since the Spring/Summer 2012 Collection.

They are taking on further challenges with fresh eyes and new ideas, while combining the traditional techniques of Japan with new technologies.

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The Concepts and Work of Issey Miyake

Miyake’s unwavering approach to creation is the freedom to have ideas, unconstrained by any preexisting rules or framework, and to be able to make them realities through a tenacious process of research and experimentation. Miyake works in a manner that not only advances his own ideas but also cultivates skills in the people around him, constantly pushing both the tradition and the evolution of design.

“The Work of Miyake Issey” exhibition was held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, in 2016 (March 16-June 13). The exhibition was a partial chronology and displayed Miyake’s early work through his latest projects. The exhibition’s focus was upon Miyake’s approach to design and to making things past, present and future. The exhibition gave the viewer an insight into Miyake’s evolutionary path of making clothing.

There is a founding principal that has always informed Miyake’s relentless search for new and more advanced designs to serve and enhance the 21st century: Making ideas, making things that have never been made before; making new realities.

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Reference:
http://www.isseymiyake.com/en/brands/issey_miyake.html

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