Japanese designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

A career spanning more than half a century.

This is what the Japanese designer who died at the age of 84 will leave behind.

"He died on the evening of August 5," an employee of his office in Tokyo announced on Tuesday to Agence France Presse, without giving further details.

The Japanese public television channel also announced his death.

Born on April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima (western Japan), Issey Miyake was seven years old on August 6, 1945 when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in history on his hometown, killing 140,000 people and traumatizing people for life. survivors.

It was three kilometers from the epicenter.

He survived.

His mother, she will die three years later as a result of radiation.

Barely graduated from the Tama University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, he moved to Paris in 1965 and studied at the school of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.

From the 1980s, Issey Miyake had made his style shine around the world using materials never seen in fashion until then.

In 1999, he signed his last women's collection under his name, thirty years after creating his brand.