As a fashion designer he revolutionized how fabrics are made, connecting traditional techniques and digital productions with the impact on ecology in mind. “Issey Miyake was a visionary design mind, and he always had big ideas behind his collections, exhibitions, and design debates he promoted through his 21_21 Design Sight. In that spirit, eight members of the design community reflect on the intrepid legacy Miyake leaves behind. “His clothing was inspirational, and I think it did have an impact on architects because it showed a freedom.” “He was a force, and an important force,” says Frank Gehry, who teamed up with architect Gordon Kipping to design Miyake’s TriBeCa flagship in 2001.
The designer would go on to work with many architects on the designs of his boutiques, even helping to launch the careers of budding starchitects like David Chipperfield. One of Miyake’s earliest inspirations, as a teenager in Hiroshima, was a pair of sculptural handrails Isamu Noguchi created for two bridges in the city. Since the debut of his eponymous collection in New York City in 1971, Miyake’s creations-creased with his signature magic pleats or crinkled like sheets of tissue paper-became a uniform for creative minds across the globe, including-famously-Steve Jobs, who admitted to having commissioned some 100 of the designer’s turtlenecks.īut Miyake had a particularly special place in the hearts and wardrobes of designers and architects, his accordioned, human-centric creations becoming as ubiquitous as Le Corbusier–style glasses or head-to-toe black in design offices everywhere. The celebrated Japanese fashion designer, who died August 5 at the age of 84, practically sculpted fabric, creating billowing, origami-like silhouettes that embodied the experimental much as they evoked ease. It’s a near-impossible feat to talk about the work of Issey Miyake without using the word architectural.
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