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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...
...Issey," asks a friend, standing in a bustling hotel lobby, "how do I work this?" The friend is flapping about in the enveloping intricacies of a new raincoat. "I made it like this," says the designer, improvising a fitting at the front desk. He unbuttons a half-cape that spans the sleeves and puts the loose ends around his friend's neck. "Like a scarf...
...Great!" he says, grabbing his companion in a tight hug, as if some souvenir sphinx had suddenly surrendered a secret. To all the patrons in the hotel lobby, it looks as if old friends were reuniting at the end of a long trip; in fact, any voyage with Issey Miyake is ongoing. "Next time I make like that, and you do something different again," he laughs. "Always fresh, always different, always challenge. That way is best, I think. Want...
...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...