Issey miyake fashion designer biography

Japanese fashion designer (1938–2022)

Issey Miyake (Japanese: 三宅 一生, Hepburn: Miyake Issei, [mijakeiꜜsseː] 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.

Life and career

Miyake was born Kazunaru Miyake (三宅 一生, Miyake Kazunaru)^[2] on 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima.

He was still living in the city seven years later when the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb there in August 1945.^[3] He first disclosed this in 2009, when Barack Obama advocated for global nuclear disarmament.^[4]

As a child, he wanted to become a dancer.

Issey miyake fashion designer biography

His interest in fashion started by studying his sister's fashion magazines. He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. He entered designs into fashion competition at the Bunka Fashion College i