FASHION & GROOMING

While riding to school in 1945 in Hiroshima, a seven-year-old Issey Miyake witnessed in the distance the first ever atomic bomb dropped by the American Air Force. He was just far enough away to not be burnt by it – four years later, his mother died from the effects of radiation. Six decades on, he still doesn’t talk about that day but it seems somehow fitting that out of an environment of such devastation sprung a lifetime of creation. Issey Miyake is a name synonymous with fine fashion and fragrance. And although, almost in his 70s, he still continues to create.

What inspires you?
Intelligent and useful creation; art; beauty that makes one react.

When you first started out, you were inspired by the will to create garments for everyone – practical, comfortable, universal. Has this changed?
That is still what I believe and what my team believes. Dai Fujiwara and the design team has, since last season, with their own point of view, been working that way. And it is with the same spirit that I direct the 21_21 Design Sight, bringing design and creation to everybody.

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