Issey Miyake- Stylert.com

Dec. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer. Issey Miyake is by far the most well-known Japanese designer in the world. Over the past 30 years he has succeeded in having successfully merged East and West in his designs. His men’s and women’s collection are defined as slim, beautifully-cut, architecturally-constructed designs with an emphasis on subtle details.  He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938. Miyake studied graphic design at Tokyo's Tama Art University, and after graduation he moved in 1965 to Paris, where he enrolled at the renowned tailoring and dressmaking school École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. He began his career in 1966, working behind the scenes for four years in ateliers operated by a trio of 20th-century fashion legends—French couturiers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy as well as the meticulous American designer Geoffrey Beene. He established the Miyake Design Studio in 1970 and started showing his line at the Paris collections in 1973.
The New York department store Bloomingdale's devoted a section to selling Miyake's “East meets West” look—mostly T-shirts dyed with Japanese tattoo designs as well as coats featuring the sashiko technique, a Japanese embroidery that strengthens fabric and was typically incorporated into labourers' clothing. Miyake became an internationally recognized name in the 1980s together with Japanese designers Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, who presented their avant-garde creations alongside his fresh, boldly coloured work during the Paris ready-to-wear collections. Working with European and American designers had taught Miyake a way of viewing fashion that stood in contrast to that of his Japanese culture, which held no distinction between fabric and body shape. In contrast to the loose fitting kimono of Japan, the Western view placed an ideal human body shape at the center of ever-changing fashions around it. Miyake was determined to form his own avant-garde approach to design. He remained true to his vision which embraced a union of traditional artistic concepts with modern freedom, energy, and technology.

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