(title) Issey Miyake Mark holborn
(description) This book highlights the foundations of Issey Miyake’s designs, tracing his inspirations from African tribal color and Japanese farmers’ cloth to the organic shapes found in nature. It presents Miyake as a designer rooted in Japanese tradition yet committed to a global cultural vision. Highlighting his groundbreaking pleats of the 1990s, where advanced technology revitalized an ancient form. This book shows how Miyake unites elegance, simplicity, and function. Under the direction of Mark Holborn, it documents for the first time the many applications of pleats as the culmination of Miyake’s continual invention and refinement.
