Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake (Japanese: 三宅 一生, Hepburn: Miyake Issei, [mijake iꜜsseː] 22 April 1938 – 5 August 2022)[1] was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his best-known product.
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Photography has always played an integral role in the triumph of the fashion world, with magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar being just a few of the fashion content hubs. These types of publications featured editorials and advertisements and showed off the latest and greatest designs on some of the most iconic models, with the designs of Japanese designer Issey Miyake being no exception. Miyake's early work started showing up in advertisements and editorials featured in a lot of these fashion publications in the early 1970’s. He's worked with a long roster of extremely talented photographers, each of whom helped him visualize his designs and created some of the most famous posters, advertisements, and editorials.

Travelling With Yuriko Takagi

Another photographer that shot some iconic, less well known images for Issey was a woman by the name of Yuriko Takagi, who first started shooting freelance after graduating college. In the early 1980’s, Takagi talked with Issey Miyake and convinced him to give her a suitcase of clothing for her to photograph all around the world. She spent years traveling to Morocco, Turkey, Kenya, India, and China in some of the most remote places photographing local people wearing Miyake’s wonderful clothing. The resulting images are truly stunning and give us an honest look at what Miyake’s designs would look like all across the world, something that Miyake aspired for with his clothing.
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