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...wear when the elements threaten to ruin your night? el Habashy: I don’t care about this question. Polino: One really cool thing you can wear when it’s shitty out. This year, it’s going to be a knee-length Issey Miyake jacket. FM: Okay, let’s do some word associations. Leggings. el Habashy: Ugh. FM: Jeggings. Lonergan: I don’t own a pair…yet. FM: Scarf. Dagogo-Jack: Why not. You got to tie it in the proper way. You got to leave it hanging sometimes...
...ambition. Only in their second year, the directors’ vision of featuring prominent and up-and-coming Asian designers in an annual fashion show is gaining recognition as something more than just another student-run project. This year, the show will bring together professional Asian designers, such as Issey Miyake, as well as students and alums from The Parsons School of Design. According to the Project East finance director Ivy A. Lee ’09, the show itself costs around $30,000, and they expect to raise $150,000 at the end of the day. Sponsors range from...
...fashion and its related industries, like music or magazines, which are all things connected to Project East. We want to give people creative outlets, for them to do it on a high level.” Hoping to reach an even higher level this year, Parent secured Japanese designer Issey Miyake in his first showing outside his own runway in Paris. Still, Parent has had to overcome more than a few hurdles with Project East. “The biggest challenge was building the show up on itself, on hype, being able to brand something that hadn?...
...concept of mottainai, which literally means "what a waste" and is manifest in an almost reflexive desire to conserve and reuse. Centuries before there was an environmental movement, the Japanese embraced origami, an art form - originally from China - based on the notion of creation without cutting. Fashion designer Issey Miyake adapted the concept 30 years ago in apparel made with a single piece of cloth, cut so that no pieces wind up in the garbage...
With his fresh concepts of beauty, Uemura joined the generation of Japanese taste-makers who established the country's global influence in design and fashion. Among his contemporaries were the fashion designers Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada, groundbreaking designers who, along with Uemura, however, continued the centuries-old tradition of Japanese males being the arbiters of female beauty. Men, for example, portrayed women's roles in kabuki plays since women were banned from the stage...