A tribute to the designer Issey Miyake In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspiredto 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 Miyakes clothes from 1960 to 2022 offers expert insight into the designers vision and daring. Initiated and conceived by Midori Kitamura, the book looks at the texture-driven originality of Miyakes 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 based on A Piece of Cloth concept, Body Series of the 1980s, Miyake Pl