Issey Miyake

According to ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research), Library authority records identify Miyake as a Japanese fashion designer born in 1938 or 1939.² According to ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research), Miyake's work is catalogued in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) artist records.² According to Hawaii's Newspaper, Miyake's designs incorporated high-tech fabrics and experimental textile techniques including devore and embroidery.⁴

According to Hawaii's Newspaper, Makiko Minagawa served as textile director for Miyake's studio for 30 years and developed over 500 textiles.⁴ According to Hawaii's Newspaper, Miyake's HaaT line featured limited production runs of 20 to 50 pieces with no re-orders on certain collections.⁴ According to The Age, in 1993 Pleats Please patented a technique of heat-treating polyester jersey so pleats stay permanently.³

Miyake was reported to be receiving Japan's Order of Culture.⁵ According to British Vogue, Miyake produced an origami-inspired line, per Vogue.⁵

Miyake's Pleats Please line launched in 1993.^1,3

The Guardian reported that Miyake was believed to have made 100 mock turtlenecks for Jobs.¹ The Guardian says the turtlenecks were believed to cost under $200 each.¹ According to The Guardian, the Guardian interpreted Jobs's turtlenecks as an emblem of late-1990s Silicon Valley work attire.¹

According to The Guardian, the Guardian described Pleats Please as a response to expensive, impractical high-end fashion.¹ According to Issey Miyake, in a 1983 interview, Miyake expressed a preference for designs that customers could wear across successive fashion seasons.¹ According to Issey Miyake, Miyake opposed the traditional fashion cycle, stating in 1983 that customers should be able to wear his designs across decades.¹

According to Issey Miyake, Miyake described the Order of Culture as encouragement for his collaborators.⁵ According to Issey Miyake, Miyake described the decoration as encouragement to all the people with whom he works.⁵