Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, unfortunately, has died at the age of 84, according to the BBC.
Issey Miyake’s group announced his death in a short statement on Tuesday (August 9), writing: “Miyake’s dynamic spirit was driven by an uncompromising curiosity and desire to convey joy through the medium of design.”
I also mentioned that according to the designer’s wish, there will be no funeral or memorial service. As reported by the Guardian, he died of liver cancer in a hospital in Tokyo.
As a tribute to the iconic designer flooding social media, read on to learn more about his life, career, and revolutionary pleated apparel…
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Who was Issey Miyake?
Issey Miyake was a designer known for his designs for clothing, exhibitions, and perfumes.
His most famous product is L’Eau d’Issey, a best-selling fragrance with fresh aquatic and floral essences sold all over the world.
Born in Hiroshima in 1938, he witnessed the deadly atomic bombing in 1945. As a child he had always wanted to be a dancer but he grew an interest in fashion and then studied graphic design.
He started entering designs in fashion competitions but had no model making or sewing skills, so he went to study in Paris and became an apprentice and assistant designer for Guy Laroche.
The designer also worked with Hubert de Givenchy and then moved to New York and attended Columbia University before returning to Tokyo and establishing his own Miyake Design Studio.
He is famous for designing pleated clothes
The studio quickly became a high-end producer of women’s fashion, and was famous for its designs using a revolutionary technique to create pleats.
His new method of bending fabric involved rolling it between layers of paper in a heat press, and it was a huge success.
His brand’s pleated clothes are light, wrinkle-resistant, and do not need to be dry cleaned, and can also be folded into a compact size for easy storage and portability.
He created his popular Pleats Please line of women’s clothing in 1988, and it’s still for sale today and remains one of his most successful ventures.
The Pleats Please website says the garments are “made with a unique ‘garment fold’ technique where the material is developed from a single thread and the pleats are added after the garment is sewn into shape.
After its huge success, Pleats Please became its own brand with the launch of its 1994 Spring-Summer collection and its online sale.
Some of his other brands include Bao Bao Issey Miyake, a bag collection, Issey Miyake watches, Issey Miyake perfumes and a collection for men and women called A-POC.
Easy made Steve Jobs’ famous jacket
In addition to his successful clothing and perfume brand, Issey is best known for making Steve Jobs turtlenecks.
The designer was personally asked by the Apple co-founder to design his famous black turtle neck sweaters that he wore to work all the time.
He made 100 of them, priced at $175 each, and the high-collar jackets became his everyday uniform, the businessman wearing them almost every day.
“I asked Issey to make me out of some of his black high-collar shirts I loved, and he made me like a hundred of them. I have enough for the rest of my life,” said the businessman according to Walter Isaacson’s autobiography.
A number of celebrities have also worn his pleated designs, including Celine Dion, Doja Cat and Solange Knowles.
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