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I had never held a piece by Issey Miyake before the tail end of a trip back home to Japan in 2019, when I wandered into the Pleats Please boutique in the Narita International Airport before my flight. <\/p>\n

Candy-colored clothes hung like streaks of paint against the perfectly white laminated walls. Store attendees patiently strolled about as travelers with luggage fumbled with scarves, jostled hangers, and cocked their heads sideways, assessing how to wear the seemingly shapeless garments. <\/p>\n

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The way movement is such an integral element in Pleats Please by Issey Miyake is so satisfying and delivers such a sensuous experience pic.twitter.com\/0rlCpoG9VW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 mar (@vogueheroine) July 17, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The two-dimensional flatness of the garments is in line with how Miyake conceived of clothing, art, and technology. The trailblazing designer from Hiroshima died on August 5th, at the age of 84, and left behind a body of work known for being as innovative as it was wearable \u2014 with the person in the clothing being central to the design. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am most interested in people and the human form,\u201d Miyake told The<\/em> New York Times<\/em><\/a> in 2014. \u201cClothing is the closest thing to all humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the tech crowd, Miyake is perhaps remembered most for designing the iconic black mock necks worn religiously<\/a> by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. As the story goes, Jobs was visiting the Sony headquarters in the 1980s and was struck by the matching work jackets worn by every employee and designed by Miyake. Jobs\u2019 attempts to pitch a uniform to Apple employees flopped, according to his biography. But he kept his own consistent outfit, with Miyake supplying hundreds of identical shirts.<\/p>\n

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Steve Jobs\u2019 uniform wasn\u2019t just an ordinary black turtle neck. His black turtle necks were always Issey Miyake. Issey Miyake actually retired this turtleneck after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a THREAD on how it came to be his staple pic.twitter.com\/D3fhmxV0bR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Shelby Ivey Christie (@bronze_bombSHEL) June 27, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Pleats Please, one of the designer\u2019s many labels, is instantly recognizable for the cutting-edge techniques used in the creation and design process. Miyake and his team had developed an innovative method of treating fabric in the \u201880s that created permanent rows of micro pleats that withstand folding, washing machines, and being jammed into suitcases (trust me). <\/p>\n

I must have touched every single garment in the store while I decided what I would walk away with. In trying on a piece, I immediately understood what Miyake meant when he spoke about the space between the wearer\u2019s body and the garment \u2014 how the former creates the latter. The tight walls of pleats expand to accommodate the unique body of the wearer, like water filling up a clear glass. Straight legs of trousers and flat lines on jackets fill with buoyancy and movement \u2014 the clothes, above all, are meant to reflect life.<\/p>\n

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Pleats Please pants \u2014 ready for whatever.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

At the shop in the airport, I finally settled on a pair of emerald green three-quarter length trousers with invisible pockets and an elasticized waistband. At $205, they felt impossibly expensive to me, but I bought them anyway. <\/p>\n

The pants have gone with me wherever I find myself: to the beach, to the grocery store, on dates and reporting trips. They are timeless, seasonless, and occasionless, which makes them, in essence, perfect for anything. Miyake\u2019s first name, Issey, translates literally to \u201cone life\u201d \u2014 fitting for the singularity of his talent but also poetic in its ode to the people he created for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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