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Issey Miyake retrospective

A retrospective in Tokyo about

the great Japanese designer

It is extremely difficult to define Issey Miyake: a visionary designer with almost lunar inspirations, a magician of the pleats, the only one after Fortuny to seduce us with them, a designer of many cultural intricacies. These are just some of many fitting definitions: but we can say, without a shadow of doubt, that Miyake has been the pleating master for the last forty years. His clothes move along the body and change shape from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, according to the movements of the wearer, transforming from “trivial” rectangles into clothes that have made women all over the world dream for over four decades.

From March 16th to June 13th 2016 his creations are on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo in his homeland, the starting point of all his research on the female body. The exhibition is an unprecedented event because it brings together a career of over 45 years by telling, first and foremost, a story, as Miyake has always done in his catwalk shows, and then by allowing us to fully understand his boundless talent. The designer’s approach is one of the most important and interesting sides of a career that allowed him to explore for a lifetime the possibilities of fashion with a strength unknown to most of his colleagues. The exhibition allows visitors to expand the boundaries of their thoughts and stimulates their creativity, allowing everyone, regardless of age and class, to have an experience connected with the true joy of creation. An unmissable opportunity worth the cost of a plane ticket halfway around the world.

01_Main Visual(CMYK)

03_Flying Saucer, Spring Summer 1994,No.10 Skirt(CMYK)

Collezioni Donna n.170 a/w 2016/17

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