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News & Analysis

Japanese Menswear Still Rules. Here's Why.

Yoshio Kubo, Bed J.W. Ford and Auralee were among a new crop of Japanese menswear designers who took Paris by storm, but the country’s enormous influence over the market runs deep.

News & Analysis

Japanese Menswear Still Rules. Here's Why.

Yoshio Kubo, Bed J.W. Ford and Auralee were among a new crop of Japanese menswear designers who took Paris by storm, but the country’s enormous influence over the market runs deep.


Fashion Week

The Prism of Issey Miyake

Freedom, joy, and futurism are all pillars of the house that should be explored broadly and fearlessly. Instead, what Yoshiyuki Miyamae produces season after season is average.

Fashion Week

The Prism of Issey Miyake

Freedom, joy, and futurism are all pillars of the house that should be explored broadly and fearlessly. Instead, what Yoshiyuki Miyamae produces season after season is average.


Fashion Week

Playful Abstraction at Issey Miyake

The collection, though still imprinted with Yoshiyuki Miyamae's childlike signature, marked a step in a more mature direction.

Fashion Week

Playful Abstraction at Issey Miyake

The collection, though still imprinted with Yoshiyuki Miyamae's childlike signature, marked a step in a more mature direction.


Fashion Week

Issey Miyake’s Sweet Cocoons

Designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae keeps focusing on fabrics and forgetting that it is shapes that carries a house like this forward.

Fashion Week

Issey Miyake’s Sweet Cocoons

Designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae keeps focusing on fabrics and forgetting that it is shapes that carries a house like this forward.


Fashion Week

The Geology of Issey Miyake

The geological-looking surfaces and geometric yet easy shapes made for an enjoyable show, but under the layers of Issey Miyake's history, the brand appears to be on autopilot.

Fashion Week

The Geology of Issey Miyake

The geological-looking surfaces and geometric yet easy shapes made for an enjoyable show, but under the layers of Issey Miyake's history, the brand appears to be on autopilot.


Fashion Week

Issey Miyake: Humanism in the Desert

Yusuke Takahashi’s powerfully calm show reestablished the core codes of the brand: clever and essential design at the crossroad of East and West with human need at its centre.

Fashion Week

Issey Miyake: Humanism in the Desert

Yusuke Takahashi’s powerfully calm show reestablished the core codes of the brand: clever and essential design at the crossroad of East and West with human need at its centre.


Fashion Week

Smiling Issey Miyake

Over the past few seasons, Miyamae has found his own key to the Issey Miyake ethos: playful and feminine, with a stress on volume.

Fashion Week

Smiling Issey Miyake

Over the past few seasons, Miyamae has found his own key to the Issey Miyake ethos: playful and feminine, with a stress on volume.


Fashion Week

Poetic Proportions at Issey Miyake

Fluidity was the byword at Issey Miyake, in a collection that functioned as a reset of sorts, a blank slate or better still, a journey from a white page.

Fashion Week

Poetic Proportions at Issey Miyake

Fluidity was the byword at Issey Miyake, in a collection that functioned as a reset of sorts, a blank slate or better still, a journey from a white page.


Fashion Week

Finding Fashion's Reset Button

Tragedy — both political and personal — hung over a Paris fashion week punctuated by masterful shows by Demna Gvasalia's Balenciaga and Rick Owens.

Fashion Week

Finding Fashion's Reset Button

Tragedy — both political and personal — hung over a Paris fashion week punctuated by masterful shows by Demna Gvasalia's Balenciaga and Rick Owens.


News & Analysis

Tokyo Museum Exhibits Issey Miyake's Constant Innovations

'The work of Miyake Issey,' at the National Art Center in Tokyo, is a moving journey through his creative mind.

News & Analysis

Tokyo Museum Exhibits Issey Miyake's Constant Innovations

'The work of Miyake Issey,' at the National Art Center in Tokyo, is a moving journey through his creative mind.