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Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1939. He studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo during which time he assembled his first fashion collection, which he named "The Poem of Material and Stone". In 1971 he formed the Issey Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo and opened a boutique at Bloomingdales in New York.
Fashion Designer Issey Miyake was born in 1935 in Hiroshima, Japan, and graduated from the Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1964, where he studied graphic design. In 1965, he moved to Paris, where he worked for Guy Laroche (1966-68) and Givenchy (1968). In 1969-70 he worked for Geoffrey Beene in New York City.
In 1970, Miyake opened the Miyake Design Studio (MDS) and in 1971 the Miyake International Inc. followed. Miyake showed his first collection in 1971 in both Tokyo and New York, and in Paris for the first time in 1973. He established a design company in France in 1979, and in the United States in 1982.
From the early days on, his collections appear almost as often in museums or on theatre-stages as they appear on the runways of the fashion business.
Miyake's early collections were influenced by Vionnet and by traditional Japanese folkwear, and today his avant-garde styles are striking and timeless. His innovative fabrics, in both natural fibers and new synthetics, are created in collaboration with his assistant, Makiko Minagawa. Since his work with coreographer William Forsythe and the Frankfurt Ballet in 1988, Miyake experiments with pleated fabrics of all kinds.
Miyake is a guest member of Chambre Syndicale du Pret-a-Porter in Paris.
