Issey Miyake, Japan's prince of pleats, dies of liver cancer aged 84 - Channel NewsAsia

The Japanese fashion designer is famous for creating a new way of pleating in the 1980s, which became his signature Pleats, Please line. He went on to develop more than a dozen fashion lines, from his main Issey Miyake for men and women, to bags, watches and …

Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in a classroom. He was reluctant to speak of the event in later life. In 2009, writing i… [+884 chars]

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