Issey Miyake
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ISSEY MIYAKE Issey Miyake was born in 1938 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 (1966-1968) and Givenchy (1968). In 1969-70 he worked for Geoffrey Beene in New York City. In 1970,Miyake opened the Miyake Design Studio (MDS) to create new fabrics and clothes, 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 of America 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 Traditional...


