Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose career spanned more than half a century, died at the age of 84, an employee told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday August 9. from his office in Tokyo. “He died on the evening of August 5”, she said over the phone, declining to be named and without giving further details. The Japanese public television channel also announced his death.
Born on April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima (western Japan), Issey Miyake was 7 years old on August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in history on his hometown, killing 140,000 people and traumatizing the survivors for life. He survived, but his mother died three years later from radiation.
Barely graduated from the Tama University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, he moved to Paris in 1965 and studied at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. From the 1980s, Issey Miyake had made his style shine throughout the world by using materials never seen in fashion until then.
