• Home
  • Metro Asian News
  • Misc Asia
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Art
  • Health
  • Eat Out
  • PODCAST
    • Apa Kabar Indonesia
    • Atlanta Burmese Voice
    • SungKhom Lao
    • Tam Su Voi
    • Usapang Pinoy
    • GAT Insight
    • Georgia Korean Podcast
ABOUT
Advertise in GAT
Contact us
Friday, January 27, 2023
Georgia Asian Times
International Insurance of Georgia
  • Home
  • Metro Asian News
  • Misc Asia
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Art
  • Health
  • Eat Out
  • PODCAST
    • Apa Kabar Indonesia
    • Atlanta Burmese Voice
    • SungKhom Lao
    • Tam Su Voi
    • Usapang Pinoy
    • GAT Insight
    • Georgia Korean Podcast
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Metro Asian News
  • Misc Asia
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Art
  • Health
  • Eat Out
  • PODCAST
    • Apa Kabar Indonesia
    • Atlanta Burmese Voice
    • SungKhom Lao
    • Tam Su Voi
    • Usapang Pinoy
    • GAT Insight
    • Georgia Korean Podcast
No Result
View All Result
Georgia Asian Times
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Metro Asian News
  • Misc Asia
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Art
  • Health
  • Eat Out
  • PODCAST
Home Lifestyle

Fashion designer Issey Miyake dead at 84

Miyake was part of a wave of young Japanese designers who made their mark in Paris from the mid-1970s.

Georgia Asian Times by Georgia Asian Times
August 9, 2022
in Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Fashion designer Issey Miyake dead at 84
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Tokyo, August 9,2022 – Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose global career spanned more than half a century, has died aged 84, said an employee at his office in Tokyo today.

“He died on the evening of Aug 5,” she said over the telephone, declining to be named.

Miyake’s funeral had already taken place, with “only relatives participating” in line with his wishes, and there were no plans for a public ceremony, she said.

Public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media reported the news of his death, with the Kyodo news agency saying he had died of liver cancer.

AD: High Museum of Atlanta

Miyake was part of a wave of young Japanese designers who made their mark in Paris from the mid-1970s. He pioneered high-tech, comfortable clothing, side-stepping the grandiosity of haute couture in favour of what he called simply “making things”.

Born in Hiroshima in 1938, Miyake was just seven years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August 1945.

He survived the blast, which killed an estimated 140,000 people on impact and led to the end of World War II after the bombing of Nagasaki three days later.

“When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience,” he wrote, adding that within three years, his mother died of radiation exposure.

“I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.”

He established the Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo in 1970, and soon afterwards opened his first Paris boutique.

‘Pleats, Please’

By the 1980s, his career was in full swing as he experimented with materials from plastic to metal wire and even artisanal Japanese paper. It was during this time he developed a new way of pleating by wrapping fabrics between layers of paper and putting them into a heat press, with the garments holding their pleated shape.

Tested for their freedom of movement on dancers, this led to the development of his signature “Pleats, Please” line.

Eventually, he developed more than a dozen fashion lines, ranging from his main Issey Miyake brand for men and women, to bags, watches and fragrances, before essentially retiring in 1997 to devote himself to research.

In 2016, when asked what he thought were the challenges facing future designers, he indicated to the UK’s “Guardian” that people were likely to be consuming less.

“We may have to go through a thinning process. This is important,” he was quoted as saying.

“In Paris, we call the people who make clothing ‘couturiers’ – they develop new clothing items – but actually the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.”

Miyake is perhaps especially revered in France, whose former culture minister Jack Lang came to Tokyo in 2016 to award him the Legion of Honour at a major retrospective.

Lang, who still wears Miyake pieces he bought many years ago, described the designer in October as a “man of a deep humanity, open to everything”.

“Issey Miyake is a researcher, a discoverer, a real inventor who conceived of and used new materials and textures the world had never seen,” he said.

Previous Post

US to return 30 looted artifacts to Cambodia

Next Post

Seattle exhibition focuses on philosophy of Bruce Lee

Georgia Asian Times

Georgia Asian Times

Related Posts

Couture season ends with disco, celebrity and classic glamor
Lifestyle

Couture season ends with disco, celebrity and classic glamor

January 26, 2023
Kim’s Convenience addresses familial trauma with comedy
Lifestyle

Kim’s Convenience addresses familial trauma with comedy

January 24, 2023
Louis Vuitton menswear channels digital age in Paris show
Lifestyle

Louis Vuitton menswear channels digital age in Paris show

January 20, 2023
Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel wins Miss Universe Competition
Lifestyle

Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel wins Miss Universe Competition

January 15, 2023
Dolce&Gabbana, Fendi ready to party in Milan
Lifestyle

Dolce&Gabbana, Fendi ready to party in Milan

January 14, 2023
Michelle Yeoh wins Golden Globe for best comedy actress
Lifestyle

Michelle Yeoh wins Golden Globe for best comedy actress

January 11, 2023
Next Post
Seattle exhibition focuses on philosophy of Bruce Lee

Seattle exhibition focuses on philosophy of Bruce Lee

Signup Free E-Newsletter

Upcoming Events

Jan 28
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Decatur Lunar New Year Festival

Jan 28
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Chinese New Year Celebration-Chamblee

Feb 18
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Spring Festival 2023

View Calendar
Logo

 

CONTACT US

Follow Us

MOST INFLUENTIAL

GAT 25 Most Influential Asian Americans Gala celebrates Asian voice

GAT 25 Most Influential Asian Americans Gala celebrates Asian voice

July 18, 2022

Video highlights of GAT 25 Most Influential Asian Americans in Georgia

July 17, 2022

2022 GAT 25 Most Influential Asian Americans in Georgia-Awards Gala

July 17, 2022

LINKS OF INTEREST

ATL Asian Film Festival

GAT on Facebook

Lunar New Year of Rabbit - GAT Special Section
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise in GAT
  • ABOUT

© 2023 Georgia Asian Times - Empowered by 8SOL. Managed by Arckopolis.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Metro Asian News
  • Misc Asia
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
  • Art
  • Health
  • Eat Out
  • PODCAST
    • Apa Kabar Indonesia
    • Atlanta Burmese Voice
    • SungKhom Lao
    • Tam Su Voi
    • Usapang Pinoy
    • GAT Insight
    • Georgia Korean Podcast

© 2023 Georgia Asian Times - Empowered by 8SOL. Managed by Arckopolis.

Welcome Back!

Sign In with Google
OR

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

Subscribe

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest
articles straight to your inbox!

    Are you sure want to unlock this post?
    Unlock left : 0
    Are you sure want to cancel subscription?