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Issey Miyake, was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.[2] He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. …

In the late 1980s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. In which the garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric’s ‘memory’ holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear. He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with pleats in a piece named “the Loss of Small Detail” William Forsythe and also work on ballet “Garden in the setting”.

Trabalha com a ideia de origami e “wearing light”.

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É um japonêgo de primeira, olha a coleção “Pleats Please“, dá para baixar o catálogo e entender melhor a ideia toda.

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