“You have to know how to pass it on to the next generation, children represent the future – loved to repeat Issei Miyake, who died of liver cancer in a hospital in Tokyo on August 5 at the age of 84. Throughout his life, the Japanese designer followed modernity through his models. But his strongest gesture toward tomorrow, paradoxically, was when he left the fashion scene in favor of his assistants in 1999. The company he founded in Tokyo in 1971, he was still the general manager. All the years following his “return to the shadows”, as he called them, he used them to nurture the artistic directors who sign his house’s collections, to pursue textile research for the Pleats Please and A-POC lines of which he is a part. Issey Miyake Inc. galaxy and imagine exhibitions…
Source: Le Figaro
