Fashion designer Issey Miyake dies of cancer at age 84

Revolutionary Japanese fashion designer, Issey Miyake, has died aged 84, his company has announced.

Miyake reportedly wanted to be a dancer or athlete when he was young – but that changed after he read his sister’s fashion magazines.

He studied graphic design at a Tokyo art university and then moved to Paris in the 1960s, where he worked with lauded fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy.

He moved to New York for a short time, before heading back to Tokyo in 1970 to open the Miyake Design Studio.

Miyake became known for creating a style that was high-tech, yet practical and comfortable, and was a household name in not only Japan’s fashion industry – but on the global catwalk.

Miyake was asked by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to design his iconic turtle neck jumpers and reportedly made 100 of them, at $175 each.

Miyake did not talk much about surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan’s revolutionary designer left one day before the 77th anniversary of his hometown’s bombing.

Source: ameyawdebrah.com