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ISSEY MIYAKE

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Sep 10, 2022
As fashion giants pass, the new guard prepares to pick up the torch
Issey Miyake and Hanae Mori have left big shoes to fill, but it's not yet clear who might take up the mantle of the next face of Japanese fashion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 16, 2022
The world of fashion and design has lost a titan
Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake didn't just dress his clients, he challenged them.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 10, 2022
The fabric of timelessness in the visionary designs of Issey Miyake
A visionary ahead of his time, Japanese designer Issey Miyake was able to not only see the future but shape it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 9, 2022
Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84
Miyake shot to fame internationally with his designs incorporating cutting-edge silhouettes and innovative fabrics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 19, 2020
There’s a story behind each of Makiko Minagawa’s textiles
The former textile director of Miyake Design Studio is still pushing the boundaries of natural fabric, craftsmanship and sustainability.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 3, 2020
Issey Miyake and New Balance tie-ups take textiles to the next level
Exhibitions showcasing the fashion brands' creative collaborations with artists highlight the evolution of fabrics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Aug 23, 2020
Good design gets a handle on eco-bags
Since the kickoff of plastic bag fees at shops in Japan, there's been no shortage of new eco-bags. “On: Design” has a few designer alternatives to the tote.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 1, 2019
Issey Miyake goes with the flow with new Osaka store
Issey Miyake's newest store taps the creativity and artisanship of Osaka with a drop of regional humor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 28, 2019
Finding time in Tokujin Yoshioka's design
Tokujin Yoshioka's design for Homme Plisse Issey Miyake/Aoyama, Issey Miyake Homme Plisse's first flagship, includes gravity-defying clothing rails, raw concrete minimalism and a showstopping special pleating machine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 2, 2018
Harri Koskinen: The Finnish connection
Industrial designer Harri Koskinen talks about his designs for the Iittala x Issey Miyake Home Collection and the affinity between Japanese and Finnish culture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 2, 2018
Seeing things from another angle
Design that thrives on different perspectives of the innovative, the classic and the traditional
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 25, 2018
Issey Miyake finds its Kyoto home
With its tiered roof, latticed exterior and exposed beams, the new Issey Miyake Kyoto flagship is more than just a store; it's a celebration of one of Kyoto's best-known traditional structures — the machiya.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 4, 2017
Welcome to the design fold
This month celebrates the art of folding with a selection of products that can be transformed by just a few bends, creases and tucks.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 8, 2016
Oki Sato of Nendo: on the objects of design
This year alone, Oki Sato, founder and director of Nendo, has not one, but two major retrospective exhibitions of the design unit's work — one at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, the other at the Taiwan Design Museum. His acclaimed "50 Manga Chairs" installation for Friedman Benda, which first debuted at the Milan Salone del Mobile 2016, is also concurrently showing in New York. The prolific architect and product designer is only 39, but he says he has hundreds more design projects lined up, and there's no end in sight for him.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jun 11, 2016
Shibuya Parco Museum Final Exhibitions I, II, III
Shibuya Parco gets ready for a rebirth
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 14, 2016
The woman who spent seven years 'locked' in Issey Miyake's wardrobe
"I'm so sorry I'm late," Midori Kitamura says as she settles into her chair. "OK, let's take a break."
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 17, 2016
Issey Miyake invites us to see his material world
Issey Miyake, designer of some of the world's most distinctive clothing and international symbol of modern Japanese craftsmanship, received France's Legion of Honor on Tuesday at the opening of a major exhibition of his work at The National Art Center, Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 17, 2016
It starts with 'a piece of cloth': Designer Taku Satoh explains what it's like to work with Issey Miyake
"A Piece Of Cloth." It is these four simple words that acclaimed graphic designer Taku Satoh cites when asked to summarize the essential appeal of Issey Miyake's creations.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 5, 2016
For fine dining a la mode, Issey Miyake and kilns in Arita are putting Japanese aesthetics on the menu.
For fine dining a la mode, Issey Miyake and kilns in Arita are putting Japanese aesthetics on the menu.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 11, 2015
Veteran designers are still as innovative as newcomers
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A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yen inches closer to intervention point as BOJ meeting starts
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar is displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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