Issey Miyake News

Few names generate fashion news decades into a career, but Issey Miyake is one of them. The collections each season are one story — permanent pleating and sculptural, technology-led construction — garments engineered from a single piece of cloth, above all the Pleats Please line renewed on the runway; the house behind them is a second, its stores, lines and campaigns; and the designer is a third, a career the industry keeps returning to when it takes stock of itself. This page is the news desk for that record in this guide.

The reference links run current searches for Issey Miyake news, photos and videos, and the designer's official website is linked there for first-hand announcements. For the background the headlines assume, turn to the profiles page in this series; for the work itself, to the collections, fall and spring pages.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not this designer's own garments.

Reading the News Well

News about Issey Miyake rewards context, because almost every story is also a story about the signatures. A headline about a new collection lands differently when the reader knows the standard it answers to — technology in service of the body — cloth engineered first, then cut and pleated around the person who wears it — and the career behind it: Born in Hiroshima on April 22, 1938, Issey Miyake studied graphic design at Tama Art University, then worked in Paris for Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy and in New York for Geoffrey Beene before founding the Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo in 1970. He presented in Paris from 1973 and built his reputation on clothing developed with textile technology: garments pleated after they are sewn, so the pleats are permanent — launched as the Pleats Please line in 1993 — and A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) in 1998, which makes a whole garment from a single tube of knitted fabric. He stepped back from day-to-day design in the late 1990s while the studio's lines continued, and he died in Tokyo on August 5, 2022. That is the work the rest of this series does: each story can be traced back through the collections page to the garments, and through the profiles page to the life that produced them.

The rhythm of the coverage follows the rhythm of the calendar. It crests at fashion week, when the fall and spring collections are presented in Paris, and runs between seasons on the house's other worlds — a store opening, a fragrance or accessories story, an exhibition or anniversary revisiting the founding years. Following the beat across a full year gives a fair picture of how a settled reputation stays alive: the shows as the visible peak of a much wider enterprise.

News in the Record

Filed over time, news becomes history. The profiles page draws on the accumulated record to tell the career in order; the collections page files each season the news announced. Readers researching Issey Miyake — for study, for buying, or for the history of design — can move between the running record and the filed one from the series links on this page. The main page routes the same searches by medium — news, photos and videos separately — for readers who want the coverage in a particular form.

One caution the news desk always applies: check dates. Fashion coverage recycles famous imagery across every era, and a photograph from an early collection can illustrate a story about any season since. The season-specific pages in this series are the corrective — each files its own strand, with its own imagery, so a story can be placed in its proper year.

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