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NOV 2025

Issey Miyake. 45th Ed.

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45th Edition Series

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Edition: EnglishAvailability: Coming soon
This history of the life and work of Issey Miyake offers unique insight into the designer’s vision and daring. The book is an encyclopedic reference to Miyake’s material and technical innovations from 1960 to 2022, overseen by Midori Kitamura – the chairman of the Miyake Design Studio who worked alongside Miyake for over 45 years.
Hardcover6.1 x 8.5 in.2.22 lb460 pages

“The book shines in the philosophy and joyous ideas that Miyake has left us.”

Arte
NOV 2025
Issey Miyake. 45th Ed.

Issey Miyake. 45th Ed.

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Lyrical Life-Wear
A tribute to the designer Issey Miyake

In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspired “to forge ahead, to break the mold.” With the boundary-defying fashion lines that followed, he not only broke molds, but recast clothing altogether. With a unique fusion of poetry and practicality, his creations blur the boundaries between tradition, modern technology, and everyday function.

This definitive history of Miyake’s clothes from 1960 to 2022 offers expert insight into the designer’s vision and daring. Initiated and conceived by Midori Kitamura, the book looks at the texture-driven originality of Miyake’s materials and techniques from the very earliest days of his career, before he had even established the Miyake Design Studio. Drawing on nearly 50 years of collaborative work with Miyake, Kitamura creates an encyclopedic reference of his material and technical innovations through the clothes from his A Piece of Cloth concept, Body Series of the 1980s, Miyake Pleats series, and such practical, everyday designs as his Pleats Please pieces.

Stunning photographs
capture his clothes in their particular quotidian originality. In her far-reaching essay, meanwhile, leading cultural figure Kazuko Koike offers both a complete chronology of Miyake’s work and an unprecedented personal profile, looking at the ambition and inspirations that drove his repertoire from tender teenage years. A must-have for designers, students, and fashion devotees, this is a timeless tribute to one of the most innovative makers of our age.

Issey Miyake. 45th Ed.
Hardcover15.6 x 21.7 cm1.01 kg460 pages

ISBN 978-3-7544-0286-3

Edition: English
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