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...Project East seeks to draw attention to Asian fashion designers who, according to the project’s mission statement, go “vastly unnoticed and underappreciated.” Combining the Harvard brand with a slew of pedestal names in fashion (the likes of Issey Miyake and Alexander Wang) the show also hoped to accomplish two other goals: to build a relationship between Harvard and the fashion industry so that aspiring undergraduates can enter careers in fashion and to raise money for the Confucius Foundation, which seeks to provide scholarships to children working in sweatshops making counterfeit designer...
...stores in Korea.“We had criteria that included the designer having to be high-end and have had a showing at a fashion week like New York, Toyko or Paris,” Parent says. “The first call we got came from Issey Miyake, which is a very successful brand with beautiful stuff.”The show will include seven collections from professional designers, including Gemma Kahng, Chris Han, and Twinkle by Wenlan, all of whom showed at New York Fashion Week.“A common misconception is that this...
Since the awe-inspiring Tokyo Midtown development opened in the Roppongi district in March, well-heeled residents of the Japanese capital have been flocking to its dining outlets, offices and boutiques. Issey Miyake is among the retail tenants of this $3 billion cathedral of commerce-but the leading fashion designer is hoping that shoppers and office workers will also make tracks for an intriguing, sleek structure located in a grassy corner of its 25-acre site...
...Historically, Japan is a country of design," says fashion innovator Issey Miyake, who plans to open 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Japan's first museum dedicated to the subject, on March 30 in Tokyo's megacomplex, Tokyo Midtown, in Roppongi. "Everything is design, from the things people take pleasure in, from gardens, scrolls, paintings and Kabuki, to the things people use." With a name that gestures to a realm of design beyond the limits of 20/20 vision, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is a Tadao Ando--designed building that was conceived as a forum where people could think about design. Together with...
...headquarters is surrounded by bookstores, cheap eateries and the capital's best universities. But Fujimoto these days is most at home in the glittering towers of Roppongi Hills, the urban development complex that has come to represent Japan's new superclass. Its avenues feature shops by Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, agn?s b. and Anna Sui and some of the city's best restaurants. Two residential blocks in the development are among Tokyo's most prestigious addresses, and the main office tower houses the most famous companies of New Japan, including tech superstars Livedoor, Rakuten and Yahoo! Japan. On the 51st...