Issey Miyake advertising from 1998
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Made in Japan The latest fashion
José Teunissen
Central Museum, Utrecht 2001, 96 pages,17,5x25,5cm, ISBN 90-73285-79-8
euro 80,00
The work of Japan's rising generation of fashion designers has attracted little international recognition. Made in Japan, an exhibition at Utrecht's Centraal Museum showcases their designs in the first presentation of their work to appear in a Dutch museum. What's so special about these Young Japanese? The first generation of Japanese designers came to Paris in the early 1980s, where Kenzo and Issey Miyake had already opened a shop in the 1970s. When Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons) and Yohji Yamamoto presented their first show in Paris in 1981 Japanese fashion became an instant success. Successive generations of designers have drawn their ideas from them. They provided the basic ingredients for designers like Martin Margiela of Belgium. Today's conceptual Dutch fashion designers owe many of the details in their work to this group of Japanese designers. And of course Yamamoto and Kawakubo have also influenced the young Japanese designers, not least because almost all of them have trained or worked under them. Besides the present generation, Made in Japan also focuses on the first generation of designers. Designs will be featured by Comme des Garçons and Issey Miyake as well as Yohji Yamamoto. Apart from Hiroake Ohya, this is also how designers such as Shinichiro Arakawa, Kosuke Tsumura, Masaki Matsushima and Gomme work.
16/04/24
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Oh my textiles people, you are going to enjoy this video!
It's under 7 minutes and contains both pleat history and some at-home pleating technique. And it's very serene.
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“Mutants Pleats" d'Issey Miyake (1989-90) présenté à côté de "T 1956-14" d'Hans Hartung (1956) dans le parcours mode "La Traversée des Apparences" parmi les collections permanentes du Centre Pompidou , mars 2024.
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Pleats Please (photographed by Francis Giacobetti)
page 156 from Pleats Please Issey Miyake published by Taschen in 2012
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Samuel Lee Roberts, wearing Miyake.
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Design is not for philosophy, it's for life.
~Issey Miyake (Japanese, 1938 -2022), fashion designer
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Années 80
Mode, design et graphisme en France
Ouvrage collectif comprenant les contributions de nombreux historiens, chercheurs, journalistes et conservateurs : Lola Barillot, Axelle Baroin, Alexis Bernier, Mathilde Le Corre, Anne-Marie Fèvre, Dominique Forest, Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Amélie Gastaut, Étienne Hervy, Karine Lacquemant, Sophie Lemahieu, Pascal Ory, Marie Ottavi, Julien Péquignot, Philippe Poirrier, S��bastien Quéquet, Margo Rouard-Snowman.
Ed.Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris 2022, 305 pages, 360 illustrations, 23,5x30,2cm, ISBN 9782383140030
euro 54,00
Catalogue de l'exposition présentée au Musée des Arts décoratifs, à Paris, du 22 octobre 2022 au 16 avril 2023.
700 œuvres – objets, mobilier, silhouettes de mode, affiches, photographies, clips, pochettes de disques et fanzines – retracent cette époque frénétique synonyme d’éclectisme, où le postmodernisme ouvre tous les possibles artistiques.
Les années 80 voient naître une nouvelle génération de designers – Olivier Gagnère, Elizabeth Garouste et Mattia Bonetti, Philippe Starck, Martin Szekely… – dans un contexte propice à la liberté d’expression. La silhouette, elle aussi, se libère des injonctions de style et certains créateurs de mode sont élevés au rang de « superstars » comme Jean Paul Gaultier ou Thierry Mugler. La publicité, le design graphique et l’audiovisuel connaissent leurs années fastes avec Jean-Paul Goude, Jean-Baptiste Mondino et Étienne Robial. De la musique new wave au post-punk en passant par le hip-hop : c’est toute une histoire de la fête qui s’écrit dans des lieux mythiques fréquentés par les noctambules du Tout-Paris.
23/12/23
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