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In the groove with designer Issey Miyake 20 years after launching Pleats Please

BY KOTARO NAKAJIMA STAFF WRITER

2012/12/26

"Pleats Please" makes its world debut at the Paris Collection in 1993 (Photo by Philippe Brazil)The yarn, the manufacturing methods have not changed a stitch over the years. Ever since the pleating technique was established, handiwork remains essential. (Photo by Hiroshi Iwasaki)The Samburu tribe live in the Turkana District in Kenya (Photo by Yuriko Takagi)Issey Miyake (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

The name Issey Miyake is synonymous with pleats. The 74-year-old Japanese designer devised a truly original way to inject nuance, beauty and comfort into items of clothing by putting numerous vertical folds in the fabric itself.