(ANSA) - TOKYO, 09 AUG - Japanese designer Issey Miyake has died.
He was 84 years old.
Miyake "died on the evening of August 5," one of his collaborators told AFP on the phone, without providing further details.
The Japanese public television channel also announced the death of the designer.
Born on April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima (western Japan), Issey Miyake was seven on August 6, 1945 when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in history on his hometown, killing 140,000 people and traumatizing survivors for life.
He survived, but his mother died three years later from radiation.
Just graduated from Tama University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, he moved to Paris to study at the ChambreSyndicale de la Couture Parisienne school.
Back in Japan, in 1970, he began a career as a fashion and design stylist characterized by research on new materials and technologies.
Among the various awards received, the prestigious Compassod'oro award in 2014, for the creation of the IN-EI Issey Miyake lamps, made for the Italian company Artemide, technologically advanced and with reduced consumption.