Disappearance of Issey Miyake, the Japanese who pushed the boundaries of fashion

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 ” liked to repeat Issey Miyake, who died on August 5 from hepatocellular carcinoma in a Tokyo hospital, at the age of 84.

Throughout his life, this Japanese designer tracked modernity through his models.

But in the spring of 1999, wasn't his strongest gesture towards tomorrow, to withdraw from the front of the fashion scene in favor of his assistants?

In the 2000s, other talents of contemporary creation - Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein, Martin Margiela, Jil Sander and Ann Demeulemeester - followed suit and chose to let go of the creative reins of the eponymous house they had founded. , driven by the feeling of having said everything.

But for him, this decision was not a renunciation.

Nor an exit under the weight of a shareholder who has become too demanding.

The company he had created, in Tokyo in 1971, he was still the main leader...

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