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Fashion meets furniture: Milan's Design Week extravaganza

Milan Design Week may have the spotlight directed at all things furniture, interiors, lighting and design, but fashion brands have increasingly joined the fray, showcasing their collaborative collections alongside other design icons. Demonstrating this trend is the Milano Moda Design calendar curated by the National Chamber of Italian Fashion,...

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Post-Kenzo and Miyake: 'A turning point for Japanese fashion'

At Tokyo's prestigious Bunka Fashion College, students concentrate in silence that is broken only by the sound of scissors and sewing machines as they strive to emulate the global success of alumni like Kenzo. The loss of greats Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake heralds the end of a fashion era, decades after Japanese design revolutionised Parisian...

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Paris fashion week pays tribute to Issey Miyake

Japanese label Issey Miyake paid tribute to its late founder at Paris Fashion Week on Friday with the sort of choreographed dance show that he pioneered. A black and white portrait of Miyake, who died last month at the age of 84, was projected on the walls and the show began solemnly with sober monochrome outfits. But the dancers turned to...

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Japanese designer Issey Miyake dies, age 84

Famed fashion designer Issey Miyake, known for his pleated clothing technique, has died at 84. According to a statement from the Miyake Design Studio and the Issey Miyake Group to FashionUnited, Miyake passed away on August 5 surrounded by his closest friends and collaborators in a Tokyo hospital. He died of hepatocellular carcinoma. Born in...

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PFW SS22: Issey Miyake implements Japanese manufacturing into seven series collection

Japanese designer Issey Miyake took on forms and fluidity for a spring/summer collection inspired by exploration, featuring seven themes that highlight the ocean’s character. Presented in both an exhibition-like event and an explorative online video, the collection labelled ‘A Voyage in Descent’ drew influence from deep-sea voyages, exhibiting...

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Issey Miyake launches new menswear brand

Issey Miyake is launching a new men’s wear brand and will be rebranding its store in Tokyo’s Aoyama district to be the physical retailer for the launch. The new line, titled IM Men, will debut at the dedicated Aoyama store on Saturday, and will rollout to other stores later this month. IM Men is a close relative to 132 5 Issey Miyake, a line...

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Video: The Fashion Archive discusses designer Issey Miyake

In this video, The Fashion Archive discusses fashion designer Issey Miyake and reacts to his use of pleating designs. Watch the video below. Video: The Fashion Archive via YouTube Photo credit: Unsplash

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Top menswear collections for Fall Winter 2020-21

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers a first look at the top collections exhibited across the Fall/Winter 2020-21 Men’s Fashion Week events. Trendstop’s catwalk experts bring you the key collection highlights from the men’s European fashion weeks. The menswear scene evolves, rethinking gender codes, reinventing youth movements and fusing the...

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Issey Miyake announces new womenswear designer

Issey Miyake has named Satoshi Kondo, a designer who has already been working in the brand’s studio, as the new designer for its womenswear line. According to WWD, Issey Miyake’s president, Takahiko Ise, announced the appointment in a letter from the brand. In the letter it was also noted that the label’s former designer of women’s collections,...

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Video: Issey Miyake Fall/Winter '19 gymnasium runway show

Issey Miyake Fall Winter 2019/2020 runway show by Yoshiyuki Miyamae during Paris Fashion Week. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

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Video: On the label - Issey Miyake and H&M

Fashion can be a lot of things, but eventually it has everything to do with technology and innovation. Source: Fashion One, YouTube.

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Video: Issey Miyake Men's SS19 collection PFW

Issey Miyake Spring Summer 2019 Menswear collection, Paris Fashion Week. Source: Fashion Feed, YouTube.