When Miyake saw how Penn had photographed his clothes for an American Vogue editorial in 1983, he exclaimed, “Wow! Two-volume catalogue for the exhibition of both Penn and Miyake "Issey Miyake: Pleats Please", at the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1 -30 Septembre 1990. to keep an unbiased view, penn never attended an issey miyake fashion show, while miyake was never present at the photo sittings by penn. through his eyes penn-san reinterprets the clothes, gives them new breath, and presents them to me from a new vantage point — one that I may not have been aware of, but had been subconsciously trying to capture.

To look at the photographs is to see how Penn essentializes Miyake’s designs, bestowing them with a graphic clarity and a highly dynamic sense of how they can be worn.The synergy between photographer Irving Penn and designer Issey Miyake is captured in this tour of Miyake's clothing across his long career and working relationship with Penn. Glam (2) vol softbound folio set from museum exhibition in Tokyo in 1990 Issey Miyake (22 April 1938- 5 August 2022) was a Japanese fashion designer.

Laid in are the folded French brochure for the Issey Miyake A Un 1988 exhibition at the Musee des Decoratifs Paris and the exhibition announcement card for the show. The models all were draped in garments of bright colors and intricate patterns and pose in an almost theatrical manner. These photographs display the extraordinary collaboration between Irving Penn and the designer Issey Miyake. Hardcover with dustjacket, unpaginated; dj is only good with moderate rubbing marks; internally very good condition; inscribed to Mary Lea Bandy (MOMA Film Dept) on image page after title page; dated 1988 and signed by Issey Miyake (in black marker; the marker bleeds onto the facing title page and the 2 pages after the signature page; no other internal marks.regardless of their cultural differences (or maybe because of it), each found a unique perspective in the other’s work. Volume One: 40 pages, with text in English and Japanese, illustrated with 3 color plates and others in black and white; Volume Two: 24 pages, 14-color illustrations and a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa, in English and Japanese.

Penn was able to view the behind the scenes of Miyake’s experimenting with his process of creating the pleats for “Pleats Please! For more than ten years there was an extraordinary collaboration between Irving Penn and the designer Issey Miyake, one of the few figures to have taken clothes design into the realm of art. they span from spring/summer collection of 1987 through to the autumn/winter collection completed in 1999. As a child he also had always wanted to be a dancer so we continue to see these performance arts inspiring Miyake with further collections. The visual directness affirms the precise and calibrated way Miyake’s garments are designed and made, which is magnified by how Penn takes photographs.

To keep an unbiased view, Penn never attended an Issey Miyake fashion show, while Miyake was never present at the photo sittings by Penn. Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 24 pages; very good condition except moderate rubbing wear to covers; pages slightly yellowed at edges; no internal marks. A fine copy, the binding square and firm with slight dustiness along the top and bottom edges of the boards.

Miyake's astonishing forms and textures have offered Penn subjects that echo both a primitive tribal beauty and the most futuristic fashion. through the photographer’s lens, the texture, shapes and forms went beyond clothing and instead transformed into art. After studying how dancers move, he sent 200 to 300 garments for dancers to wear a different one in each performance of The Last Detail. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear. By wearing the artworks upon their bodies, the wearers interacted with fashion and art simultaneously.

This book springs from Penn’s huge regard for the Japanese designer -and his recognition that the photographs depict pure, timeless and sculptural designs, designs that run counter to all the eroticism displayed in fashion. He was also inspired by fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet's use of geometric calculations and "a single piece of beautiful cloth. Hardback in publisher's original dust jacket, text in English, unpaginated, copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Penn and Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer had a deep creative understanding of each other's work, having met in 1983. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.