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...wear. That may be because the authors and compilers are all looking in the wrong place. Some of today's snazziest male dressers are architects, singers, artists, actors. While Flusser is flashing his stills of Adolphe Menjou, David Byrne is looking great--and different--in an Issey Miyake jacket. This kind of action gets by books like these, partly because most of them are written for readers with a shaky grip on individuality, by authorities who are probably spending too little time on the street and too much in front of the mirror. --By Jay Cocks
...among the growing legion of Issey Miyake's admirers [LIVING, Oct. 21]. I have finally put away my Ivy League classics and am thrilled to be liberated by his exquisitely crafted clothes. I used to despise shopping, but no more. Now with every new season I am on the trail of Miyake's designs. Dodi Fromson Los Angeles Cosell's Confessions...
...their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans and Champion sweatshirts. "For too long, fashion was something people could look at but couldn't imagine wearing," says Takizawa, whose collaboration with the decidedly unglamorous...
...Takizawa embodies that casual creativity. Born in 1960, Issey Miyake's heir apparent has overseen rarefied collections with names like Pressed, Shade and Smoothed Edges. But even as he was earning accolades from the jet set, Takizawa says he was drawing his truest inspiration from a little swatch of antique denim fashioned during California's Gold Rush. "For people of my generation in Japan, denim represented freedom and individuality," says Takizawa. With more younger buyers crowding his store, Takizawa decided it was time to debut this most plebeian of fabrics on the runway. The loosely tailored jeans that resulted from...
...long as we are talking about fantastic visions, let's note for the record Hadid's hennaed hair and the all-black wingspread of her Issey Miyake outfit. Maybe you can't flip your cell phone shut with a sense of occasion, but she can. In a field utterly dominated by men, the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid happens to be the world's best-known woman architect. Whether that's a good thing depends on how you might feel about a lifetime supply of headlines that call you a diva. Granted, she has been known to sometimes...