1938-2022 Born in the Hiroshima that in few years would be destroyed by the bomb, Issey Miyake graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1964, before working several years in Paris and New York to learn the principles of couture, and returning i

The young Japanese who landed in Paris in the 1960s to hone his gifts in clothes design could not have imagined himself one day garbing the world’s intelligentsia, from the tight black turtleneck jerseys of Steve Jobs to the voluminous coats of Zaha

The Guardian   Veronica Horwell   Fashion designer whose innovative hi-tech creations were inspired by the ancient principles of Japanese clothing. The 1960s often attempted to imagine the future of clothes – take a look at the designer Hardy Amies’ wardrobe for Stanley Kubrick’s fil