Word: issey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general introduction, courtesy Issey Miyake: "I make clothes." A gentle caution: "We must not be too logical." And an all-purpose question: "How do you think...
...written, "the body enters a state of perfect balance. Buto belongs both to life and to death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown." Like other artists working from within a conception of Japanese modernism-the film director Nagisa Oshima, the designer Issey Miyake-Amagatsu is obsessed with redefinition. Buto, at its point of origin in the social and artistic turmoil of the '60s, was brooding, even brutal, full of images of apocalypse. It was revolutionary, but by the time Amagatsu began his work with Sankai Juku, it was in need...
...frivolity, to pricey artifice in the service of camp and commerce. It is a subject that seldom rates serious attention. There are not, after all, a lot of clothing designers who deserve it. But of those who do, a disproportionate number are Japanese. If someone as gifted as Issey Miyake were making movies, he would already be hailed as a world master, with grand prizes and retrospectives. As it is, however, honor in this chosen field is mostly a matter of a new boutique opening and bare shelves before the season ends...
...idea and the allure of the designers," grouses Jean-Paul Gaultier, whose clothes attempt to transform the pandemonium of London rock fashion into a whimsical redefinition of youth a la mode. "They buy a big, oversized suit in a small size so it becomes superclassic, not all me." Issey Miyake expects buyers "to be creative. Sometimes they're afraid and I say, please, try. I expect people I work with to do something fresh. That way they don't get tired of me and I don't get tired of them...
...concealing-certain inevitable animosities. The buyers think they are being pushed too hard to spend too much. The designers keep a little distance, knowing, at least, that any buyer is capable of the kind of catty commercial aside that was overheard in Miyake's Paris salesroom: "All my Issey customers have fat asses...