ISSEY MIYAKE

Established by Issey Miyake in 1970. In 1971, the first collection was announced in New York, and since 1973 they began to show in Paris. Miyake, founder and first designer, was born in 1938. He studied at the Tama Art University and the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris. Miyake’s dress-making is consistently based on the concept of “one piece of cloth” from the beginning of the debut, and the root of the relationship between the body, the cloth that covers it, and the balance that occurs between them. The brand also invented a material which they had studied from a level of a single thread, and in 1988 they announced their pleats piece which later became a brand of its own “PLEATS PLEASE”. Currently, young designers inheriting Miyake’s DNA manages their design team. From 2020, Satoshi Kondo designs for their womenswear line and their design team designs for the menswear line, consecutively developing the brand’s other lines such as “PLEATS PLEASE”, “HOMME PLISSÉ” and “BAO BAO”.