ThE WaNtEd FaShIoNs....

BIOGRAPHY:

Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1938. He established the Miyake
Design Studio in 1970 and started to show his line at the Paris Collections
in 1973. Miyake's basic tenets for making clothes has always been the idea
of creating a garment from 'one piece of cloth', and the exploration of the
space between the human body and the cloth that covers it. His approach to
design has always been to strike a consistent balance between tradition and
innovation, handcrafts and new technology.
PLEATS PLEASE, which was born in1993, is a radical but eminently practical and universal form of contemporary clothing that combines technology, functionality and beauty. PLEATS PLEASE is exhibited at the Pompidou Center, Paris as the firstexample of clothing design, currently on view as part of an exhibitionentitled: BIG BANG: Destruction et Creation dans l'art du XX Siecle show.

In 1998, Miyake embarked upon a new project called A-POC (A Piece of Cloth)
with Dai Fujiwara and a team of young designers. He is challenging the way
in which clothing is made using new process that harnesses computer technology to industrial knitting or weaving machines to create clothing beginning with a single piece of thread. Miyake established the Miyake Issey Foundation with the authorization of the Ministry of Education and Science, in February of 2004.

Photo by Yuriko Takagi

Selected Products

* Issey Miyake
* Issey Miyake Permanente
* Asha by MDS
* Issey Miyake Plantation (men's wear)
* Issey Miyake Pleats Please, since 1990
* Issey Miyake Cotton (diffusion)

Selected Awards

* Japan Fashion Editor's Club Award (1974)
* Pratt Institue, New York Award for Creative Design (1980)
* International Award of the Council of America Fashion Designers (1984)
* Neiman-Marcus Award (1984)
* Best Collection presented by a Foreign Designer-Award of Les Oscars 1985 de la Mode, Paris (1985)
* Award of the Japanese magazine for the textile industry Senken Shimbun (1986)
* Mainichi Newspaper Fashion Awards (1977, 1984, and 1996)

Miyake's licenses include hosiery, luggage, home furnishings, and bicycles.

Address
Tokyo Headquarters
Miyake Design Studio
1-23, Ohyama-cho
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151, Japan
Tel.: (+03) 34-81-64-11

Paris Headquarters
5 Place des Vosges
75004 Paris, France
Tel.: (+1) 44545600
FAX.: (+1) 42773808

Paris Boutique
3, place des Vosges
75004 Paris, France
Tel.: (+1) 48870186

New York Boutiques
992 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y.10021-1839, U.S.A.
Tel.: (+212) 439-7822

Tribeca Issey Miyake
119 Hudson Street at North Moore
New York, NY 10013
Tel.: (+212) 439-4620

London Boutique
270 Brompton Road
London SW3 2AW, Great Britian
Tel.: (+1) 715813760

Tokyo Boutique
Aoyama107-0062
3-18-11 Minami Aoyama
Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan
Tel.: 03-3423-1408