Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer who was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances. He founded MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO in 1970 as a creative place to research and plan clothing that has social and universal values. The staff collaborates closely with producers and factories, and also experiments in their own workshop. Through this process, they create original materials and innovative techniques that result in unprecedented methods of making clothing. MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO always strives to create clothing that suits the times, and nurtures the next generation of talents under Miyake's direction. It also holds and manages the intellectual property rights of all the brands it has developed, as well as the new concepts and original designs it has realized. It gives them lasting value and protection. Furthermore, it engages in planning in various fields beyond clothing, by signing joint development contracts with other companies. MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO's spirit is to pursue what contemporary people truly need by expanding the idea of "a piece of cloth" that covers the human body, which is the primal question of clothing.