Biography
Issy Miyaka (Issei Miyak) - Japanese designer. Its conceptual fashion was ahead of time because it was based on the secondary use of materials, environmental friendliness, convenience of wearing and focused on the fantasy of customers. In addition to clothes, the name Miyaka carries a line of spirits.Childhood and youth
Kuturier was born exactly 68 years after Vladimir Lenin in Hiroshima in the family of an officer. At 7 years old Miyaka survived the nuclear bombardment of his hometown.
3 months after the attack, the boy's mother died from radiation sickness, and the excuse developed a disease that made the young Japanese chrome and put the end of his childhood dreams about the athlete career. Father previously died at the front.
In 1964, Issis graduated from the department of graphic design Tokyo University of Arts Tama. Another famous graduate of the university - Writer Ryu Murakami. The first collection of Recycling, created by a guy in 25 years, was called the "poem from canvas and stone."
Personal life
Personal life Japanese fashion designer prefers to leave behind the curtain. Even the information on the laid nuclear bombardment of the childhood of Issei announced, only being an old man, because he did not want the feedback on his collections from being condescension to the biography. Accurate growth and weight of the couturier are unknown.Girls claim that Naoki Takizawa, who developed the design of a black turtleneck for Steve Jobs and headed Miyaka's fashion house in 1999, has to Issey Son. But these rumors are not confirmed. In 2010, Takizawa became the director of the design of Uniclo. Now Naoki also heads its own firm for creating uniforms for various services.
The years of friendship tied the fashion designer with the British artist-ceramist of the Austro-Jewish origin of Lucy Rei, who traveled a man part of his works. The lady was older than 36 years old.
Career
In the second half of the 60s of the 20th century, Issi lived in the capital of France, he worked at Juber de Zhivani and studied at a high fashion school. Together with Ron, Arad Miyaka developed a chair for a chair that could be worn as a clothing.
The Japanese witnessed student unrest in Paris and changed his mind to create outfits for french bourgeois. Speaking up with the Livests, Issy moved to New York, where he worked with Jeffrey Binin.
In 1970, Miyaka returned to Japan and opened his name Atelier. One of the first sign works of the designer - Bodi from Jersey with Portrea Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin.
When the research is asked what he creates, the Japanese is responsible - joy. The fact is that in the native language Miyak there are three terms meaning clothes. The first characterizes traditional Japanese outfits, the second - Western, and the third is the robe at all. The last word is also used in the meaning of joy, good luck.
On the game of words is based on the brand of spirits from the research. The name of the Japanese is consonant with the English Word "Easy, Fresh," and when creating flavors, Miyaka was focused on freshness.
Among the conceptual developments of the research - clothing, which is created in two stages. On the first flap, the fabric is winding around the body, the sleeves are sewn on the second to it. Such an outfit does not shine movement.
Also, Miyaka used the Japanese Origami equipment when developing clothes from pleated tissue. The purpose of the research was the creation of incurred outfits. One of the most famous works of Hiroshimi's native - pleated tunic with the reproduction of the painting "Source" of the French artist Jean Engra.
Issy Miyaka now
Although in 2007, Issi retired, Kuturier continues to inspire and track lines clothes and perfumes produced by his brands. Photos of novelties from Miyaka and news about shows can be seen on the official website of the fashion house and its pages in "Instagram".
On September 27, 2019, in the Paris Cultural Center, Le Centquatre-Paris showed outfits at the spring-summer season of 2020, created by the designer at home Miyaka Satoshi Condo. The collection is called the "sense of joy."