Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Design)

Issey Miyake

Japan / April 22, 1938
Designer

"A designer who has made great contributions to the innovative development of clothing by fusing Eastern and Western cultures and applying cutting edge technology"
Mr. Issey Miyake, with his originality, has recaptured the relationship between plane fabrics and the three-dimensionality of the human body and formulated the epoch-making concept of "a piece of cloth (A-POC)" rooted in Eastern culture. Applying this concept and cutting edge technology to his designs, he has been creating clothing that can become a part of people's lives, cutting across time, national borders, and classes.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1938	Born in Hiroshima, Japan
1959-1964	Tama Art University, B.A. (Graphic Design)
1965-1969	Study at La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, assistant designer to Guy Laroche,Paris, assistant designer to Givenchy, Paris, Designer to Geoffery Beene, New York
1970	Established the Miyake Design Studio,Tokyo
1971	Presented his first collection in New York.
1973	Autum/Winter Collection Paris, since this year, collections have been shown in Paris.
1988	Started working on the "pleats" series
1993	Launched the line "Pleats Please Issey Miyake"
1998	Presentation of the "A-POC"
2004	Establisched the "Miyake Issey Foundation"

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

1977	Mainichi Design Award
1992	Asahi Award
1993	Chevalier de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur
1998	Named as a Person of Cultural Merit from the Japanese Goverment
1999	The Georg Jensen Award Denmark
2004	The Weksner Award from Weksner Center, University of Ohio U.S.A.
2005	Praemium Imperiale (Sculpture)

SELECTED WORKS

1971	Presented his first collection in New York.
1973	Autum/Winter Collection Paris, since this year, collections have been shown in Paris.
1977	"Issey Miyake and a piece of cloth" exhibition, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
1979	"East Meets West", show, at the International Design Conference in Aspen, U.S.A.
1980	Costumes for Maurice Béjart's ballet, "Casta Diva", performed at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with Tomio Mohri.
1985	"Issey Miyake Bodyworks", exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1990	"Energies", exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1991	Costume for "The Loss of Small Details", William Forsythe & Frankfurter Ballet
1998-2000	"Issey Miyake Making Things", exhibition, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; ACE Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2001	"A-POC Making. Issey Miyake & Dai Fujiwara", exhibition, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin
2005	"Big Bang", exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris

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