Glam (2) vol softbound folio set from museum exhibition in Tokyo in 1990 Issey Miyake (22 April 1938- 5 August 2022) was a Japanese fashion designer. To keep an unbiased view, Penn never attended an Issey Miyake fashion show, while Miyake was never present at the photo sittings by Penn.

Following a session, Penn would then send the complete run of transparencies generated to Miyake in Tokyo, who would use them to review his design work and as the springboard for new design directions. It’s an outfit that speaks with great understatement about the relationship between fashion and photography, about the inventiveness and imagination shared between practitioners from adjacent visual fields, and about the need for critical distance and critical friends. Laid in are the folded French brochure for the Issey Miyake A Un 1988 exhibition at the Musee des Decoratifs Paris and the exhibition announcement card for the show. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Jobs said, "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them. In the late 1980s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. Penn was able to view the behind the scenes of Miyake’s experimenting with his process of creating the pleats for “Pleats Please! In the obituaries published recently in honor of Miyake, many commented on the black mock turtleneck that the fashion designer made for Steve Jobs as his personal uniform.

without penn-san’s guidance, I probably could not have continued to find new themes with which to challenge myself, nor could I have arrived at new solutions. He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with an ultra feather-polyester jersey permanently pleated in a piece named "the Loss of Small Detail" William Forsythe and also work on ballet "Garden in the setting". He also developed a friendship with Apple's Steve Jobs and produced the black turtlenecks which would become a part of Jobs' signature attire. Y. 1988 [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1988 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. It’s an outfit that materializes Miyake’s principle that we all should continue to live by: “One always needs someone who can look over one’s shoulder and evaluate one’s work from a detached and objective point of view—someone who can act as a sounding board. The late Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake held a rare appreciation for the role of image-making in design creativity. Miyake's astonishing forms and textures have offered Penn subjects that echo both a primitive tribal beauty and the most futuristic fashion.

Penn and Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer had a deep creative understanding of each other's work, having met in 1983.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In 1986 Penn started to shoot Miyake’s seasonal collections in New York, resulting in advertising campaigns, exhibitions, and publications.