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- Birth nameKazunaru Miyake
- Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a costume designer and actor, known for Ready to Wear (1994), Vamp (1986) and Hidden Inside Mountains (2005). He died on August 5, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Origami-like pleats and sculpted clothing
- Japan's leading commercial designer as well as establishing his own Tokyo design studio in 1970.
- Studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo.
- After 30 years in the fashion business, he announced that Naoki Takizawa would take over his ready-to-wear-lines (2000).
- Is mentioned in the song "Flamboyant" by Pet Shop Boys.
- He was seven years old and in his school classroom when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. His mother died of radiation poisoning less than three years later.
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