The stylist, born in Hiroshima and whose career has extended over more than half a century, has imposed itself in the world of fashion using materials never seen. >
Le Monde with AFP
The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose career has extended over more than half a century, died at 84, announced Tuesday August 9 at the France-Presse an employee of his office in Tokyo. “He died in the evening of August 5,” she said on the phone, refusing to be named and without giving more details about his death. The Japanese public television also announced its death.
Born April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima (western Japan), Issey Miyake was seven years old on August 6, 1945 when the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb in history on its hometown, killing 140,000 people and traumatic for life the survivors. He had survived but his mother had died three years later from the aftermath of the radiation.
Barely graduated from the University of Fine Arts from Tama to Tokyo, he settled in Paris in 1965 and studied at the school of the Parisian Couture Syndicale. From the 1980s, Issey Miyake had shown her style around the world using materials never seen in fashion until then.