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Issey Miyake Into the Fold

1970

MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO

aving studied graphic design (because fashion design was not offered at the time) at Tokyo’s Tama Univeristy, a young Issey Miyake moved to Paris to work under Hubert de Givenchy, Guy Laroche and then Geoffrey Beene in New York. After establishing his design studio, he showed his first collection in New York in

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