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Lithuania may be light-years away from the glamorous runways of Paris, but its newly independent Olympic team will head for Barcelona in the high-style finery of acclaimed Japanese designer Issey Miyake...
...precious few mistakes in his long career, agrees. He likes woolly legs, not crazy legs. In fact, he likes them well enough to denude his outfits of ornament. "Small head, short hair, no jewels, no necklaces," is his 1990 message. Who will come to the defense of artifice? Not Issey Miyake. Says the Japanese designer, who can conjure more shapes than a sculptor: "Clothes aren't sexy, women...
...vows to decorate in style a newly purchased Manhattan triplex to which he will move in October. He rarely cooks or eats at home; instead he deftly table-hops at fashionable restaurants and dates "now and then." His "vice, if I have any," is clothing from Issey Miyake and other Asian designers...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings Americans a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...