The OTHER Blonde: Issey Miyake

Will July please hurry up!.. After seeing a short taster of Miyake's designs through an oriental fashion film by Alex Sainsbury, it would be an understatement to say I didn't worship the ground that he walked on. It is not only the concept that is enthralling but his continuous passion to collaborate with high-tech science to produce the most diverse and controversial designs. After he was initially inspired from a subtle handkerchief crease he has transformed and changed the perception of the industry's knowledge of pleats.
Launching the Miyake Design Studio in 1970, allowed the freedom to produce dynamic garments that contain a physical ambiguity creating a dialogue between clothing and the underlying body.

'Once it's made, fabric is like the grain in wood, you can't go against it. You know what I like to do sometimes? I like to close my eyes and let the fabric tell me what to do.'

Issey Miyake began to manipulate pleated textiles from 1988 but the official Pleats Please exposition was not until 1993. He has influenced a large number of designers to pursue this aesthetic and adapt it to there unique designs, such as Naoki Takizawa. His work has conserved Miyake's career-long focus on a typical forms and transforming shapes through applications to advanced textiles.

Oh dear I could talk for hours about this designer but really the images speak for themselves...