Word: issey
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...prestige Isozaki and his colleagues have in Japan mirrors (and was certainly increased by) the rise of American architects such as Richard Meier and Michael Graves as stars. On the other hand, no American clothes designer has-or deserves-the kind of cultural importance in the U.S. that Issey Miyake, 45, has achieved in Japan. Miyake possesses a remarkable gift for condensing a long craft tradition relating to textiles, ceremony and theater into fresh but amenable images of the body, without the condescension and puppeteering that so often accompanies high fashion in the West...