ABOUT Issey Miyake + Reality Lab

Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. In the 1960s. He studied graphic design at the Tama At Univercity in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. He designed for Givenchy in Paris, after which he designed for Geoffrey Bean in Manhattan. Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he founded the Miyake Design Studio, a high-end producer of women's fashion. During the 1970s, he toyed with avant-garde Eastern designs. In the 1980s, he began using technology new East meets West textiles. He started Pleats Please in 1993 and A Piece of Cloth in 1999.

The Miyake Issey Foundation, founded in Tokyo in 2004, operates the 21_21 Design Sight center, organizes exhibitions and events, and publishes literature.

Awards:

Miyake won the Arts & Philosophy Kyoto Prize in 2006.

In 2005, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture.

XXIII Premio Compasso d'Oro ADI, 2014, for family of lamps ''IN EI'' Issey Miyake, Artemide, for mixed tradition and modernity in an essential purpose, technologically advanced but at the same time poetic.