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  • NAME: Issey Miyake
  • OCCUPATION: Fashion Designer
  • BIRTH DATE: April 22, 1938 (Age: 75)
  • EDUCATION: Tama Art University, Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Hiroshima, Japan
  • Originally: Miyake Kazumaru
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus

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Fashion designer Issey Miyake used new technology to create innovative textiles with both Eastern and Western influences for his clothing line, Pleats Please.


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Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. In the 1960s, he designed for Givenchy in Paris, after which he designed for Geoffrey Bean in Manhattan. In 1970, Miyake started his own design studio. During the 1970s, he toyed with avant-garde Eastern designs. In the 1980s, he began using technology new East meets West textiles. He started Pleats Please in 1993 and A Piece of Cloth in 1999.

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