Irving Penn on Issey Miyake

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The book shows some of Miyake’s most famous pieces in beautiful detail photographed on clean white backdrops with bright light to capture the pleat pattern. In March 1992 he was quoted in the International Herald Tribune as saying "Design is not for philosophy it's for life. In 1986 Penn started to shoot Miyake’s seasonal collections in New York, resulting in advertising campaigns, exhibitions, and publications. Photographs by Irving Penn; afterword by Tadao Ando (in English and Japanese, all other text in English. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear.

with friendly greeting and constant admiration I P" He has additionally signed his name in full above the inscription and circled it. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.A fine copy, the binding square and firm with slight dustiness along the top and bottom edges of the boards. kitamura is currently the president of miyake design studio as well as the creative director of the exhibit. distributed for the trade and NOT FOR SALE, mostly color photos, not to be confused with either the 1988 or 1989 Edition of this book, (VV1/1)).

Penn was able to view the behind the scenes of Miyake’s experimenting with his process of creating the pleats for “Pleats Please! A comprehensive set of images from their work together is reproduced in the photobook Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake, published in 1999 and edited by Mark Holborn. When Miyake saw how Penn had photographed his clothes for an American Vogue editorial in 1983, he exclaimed, “Wow!

outlining the creative relationship between the two artists, a 9 minute 58 second animation was directed by pascal roulin. regardless of their cultural differences (or maybe because of it), each found a unique perspective in the other’s work. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Two-volume catalogue for the exhibition of both Penn and Miyake "Issey Miyake: Pleats Please", at the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1 -30 Septembre 1990.Original white paper covered boards with the titles in grey to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. a diverse digital database that acts as a valuable guide in gaining insight and information about a product directly from the manufacturer, and serves as a rich reference point in developing a project or scheme. The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated.

For ten years Irving Penn – one of the greatest fashion photographers of the post-war era – and Issey Miyake – probably the only designer of the century to take design into the realm of art – have shared an extraordinary collaborative relationship. P." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent. Y. 1988 [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1988 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer. As a child he also had always wanted to be a dancer so we continue to see these performance arts inspiring Miyake with further collections. Laid in are the folded French brochure for the Issey Miyake A Un 1988 exhibition at the Musee des Decoratifs Paris and the exhibition announcement card for the show.Given absolute artistic license to interpret and photograph Miyake's designs in surprising ways, Penn achieved this with inventive and unexpected photographs, still framed against his signature pure white backdrops. He was enrolled in English classes at Columbia University and worked on Seventh Avenue for designer Geoffrey Beene. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.