Japanese fashion designer, Issey Miyake, has passed away. According to reports he died of liver cancer on Friday, August 5, 2022, at aged 84.
Miyake is renowned for building a global fashion brand which included designing Steve Jobs’ famous black turtle neck jumpers. He was known to work with traditional and modern fashion techniques during his long career.
The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, famed for his pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles and who produced the signature black turtleneck of his friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs, has died. He was 84.
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Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in a classroom. He was reluctant to speak of the event in later life. In 2009, writing in the New York Times as part of a campaign to get the then US president, Barack Obama, to visit the city, he said he did not want to be labelled as “the designer who survived”.
“When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience,” he wrote, adding that within three years his mother had died of radiation exposure.
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“I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.“
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