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Issey Miyake, ground-breaking Japanese fashion designer and favourite of museum costume institutes, has died, aged 84

After surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child, Miyake turned to clothes as a modern, optimistic form of creativity, and revived the use of pleats to create wearable, free-flowing, unisex clothes

Louis Jebb
9 August 2022
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Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake speaks before the opening of his exhibition The Work of Miyake Issey at the National Art Center in Tokyo in 2016. © Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO/Alamy Live News