Issey Miyake: Utilized Textiles (1984-1987) Designed By: Makiko Minagawa

Koichi Yoshimura and Reiko Sudo, Blue Mirror Cloth with Wrinkles, 1995 S. Yoshimura Co., Ltd., Fukui City, Japan Seiren Co., Ltd., Fukui, Japan Satin weave Cloth without wrinkles originally designed by Makiko Minagawa with Yoshimura, 1990. Gift of the manufacturer Exhibitions: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles." November 12, 1998-February 2, 1999.

Issey Miyake (April 22, 1938 - August 5, 2022)

Issey Miyake’s clothes veered from the wildly inventive, as evidenced by the minuscule knife-edge pleats that characterized many of his garments, to the starkly classic, as embodied by the black turtleneck that would for decades serve as the trademark attire of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. 

An early proponent of the concept of fashion design as both a form of art and a kind of architecture, he counted among his influences Isamu Noguchi, Constantin Brancusi, and Alberto Giacometti.

Cover: Issey Miyake, New York, 1988  Photograph by Irving Penn  © The Irving Penn Foundation.

Japanese Fashion Designers

Bonnie English

Bloomsbury, 188 pages, ISBN 9781847883100

euro 50,00

Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike. Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers. It outlines their major contributions and the subsequent impact that their work has had upon the next generation of fashion and textile designers around the world. Designers discussed include: Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Naoki Takizawa, Dai Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Tao Kurihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo & the Nuno Corporation, Makiko Minagawa, Hiroshi Matsushita, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang.

24/02/24

Dress

Issey Miyake, 1982

“Miyake’s signature pleats create texture and drama in this ensemble. These heat-set folds, literally melted into place, are only possible with the synthetic fibers and coatings that he blends with natural fibers. Since the Miyake Design Studio’s founding in 1970, Issey Miyake has partnered with textile designer Makiko Minagawa to experiment with innovative synthetics.”

Issey Miyake: Utilized Textiles (1984-1987)                  Designed By: Makiko Minagawa

Too Young to Die! (JM, 2016) (Sub. Esp)

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Título: Too Young to Die! Título original: Too Youg to Die! Wakakushite Shinu País: Japón Género: Comedia, fantasía Duración: 125 min. Fecha de estreno: 25 de junio de 2016 Dirección: Kudo Kankuro Guion: Kudo Kankuro Producción: Uda Mitsuru, Nagasaka Makiko, Usui Hisashi SINOPSIS El estudiante de instituto Diasuke está enamorado de su compañera de clase Hiromi. En el camino de un viaje de estudios, el bus en el que va Daisuke tiene un accidente. Cuando Daisuke se despierta se encuentra en el infierno. Se pregunta a sí mismo, "¿Por qué sólo yo? soy demasiado joven para morir y nunca he experimentado un beso." Entonces, Killer K aparece frente al confundido Daisuke. Killer K lidera la banda de rock Instituto Agrícola Heruzu from Hell. Para volver a la vida y confesar sus sentimientos a Hiromi, las rondas infernales de Daisuke comienzan bajo un entrenamiento especial de Killer K. CAST Nagase Tomoya como Killer K Kamiki Ryunosuke como Daisuke Kiritani Kenta como Cozy Seino Nana como Jako Morikawa Aoi como Tezuka Hiromi Ono Machiko como Naomi Miyazawa Rie como Tezuka Hiromi (adulta) Furuta Arata como Director Enma Minagawa Sarutoki como Junko Shishido Kavka como Asura Manii Kiyoshi como Hime Oni Furutachi Kanji como Matsuura 

TRÁILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtuEh55yL1I

Sea shell

Designer: Issey Miyake (Japanese, born 1938)

Design House: Miyake Design Studio (Japanese)

Date: 1985

Culture: Japanese

Medium: cotton, nylon, linen

Consistently attentive to cloth's interplay with the human body, by 1985 Issey Miyake was becoming more artificial in his dimensionality, building architectural shapes and infusing the structures of his textiles with permanence and solidity. Miyake manufactured several heat-embossing and texturing processes through the Miyake Design Studio collective (established in 1970) and, alongside designer Makiko Minagawa, manipulated knitwear and synthetics after a garment was constructed by infusing pleats and bumps into otherwise tranquil weaves. The "Seashell" coat, also sometimes referred to as the "Shell-knit," is one of his most celebrated and independently iconic creations, with a heat-pleating post-process that coincides with the bands of color in the initial knit design. The organic architecture of the "Seashell" coat, as well as the visual splendor of alternate red, lavender, and pink stripes running between elegant gray ribbing, seems inspired by the designer's 1969 apprenticeship with cloth sculptor and design genius Geoffrey Beene.

interview with issey miyake textile designer makiko minagawa

”Shinkoku-dyed Thai silk on the left, and the cotton fabric used in the dress [on the right, in which] two lengths of fabrics [are] stitched together in a pattern of triangles.”

Japanese Fashion Designers

The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo

Bloomsbury, London 2011, 188 pages, 17,5x24,8 cm, 24 colour & 40 bw illustrations, paperback, ISBN 9781350088146

euro 50,00

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Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike.

Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers. It outlines their major contributions and the subsequent impact that their work has had upon the next generation of fashion and textile designers around the world.

Designers discussed include: Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Naoki Takizawa, Dai Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Tao Kurihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo & the Nuno Corporation, Makiko Minagawa, Hiroshi Matsushita, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang.

09/01/24

(via Longtime Issey Miyake Collaborator Makiko Minagawa Is Pushing the Boundaries of Textiles)

Metropolis Magazine:

Game Changers 2015: Makiko Minagawa 

Handcrafted textiles and technically innovative fabrics often seem worlds apart. This Japanese powerhouse has been opening up exciting possibilities for textile design by combining the two. One name inevitably crops up in the numerous newspaper articles, magazine features, and books that have been written about fashion designer Issey Miyake in the last three decades. “With his textile designer, Makiko Minagawa...,” the typical article says, then offers scant details on this enigmatic designer. But Minagawa has contributed in no small part to Miyake’s global acclaim.

HaaT Dress Above:

Shinkoku is a traditional Japanese dyeing technique used to produce a highly saturated black color. Above, left: A cotton dress dyed in this way is made of two layers stitched together in a pattern of triangles. The top layer is then cut up for an appliqué-like effect. Above right: Shinkoku-dyed Thai silk on the left, and the cotton fabric used in the dress.