"I can't say that any one experience makes you who you are, " Miyake once said.
The kind made famous by Japanese designers like Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo, who also show in Paris.
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Despite 25 more years of critical accolades, Miyake continued to question his motivations.
Born and raised in Hiroshima, Miyake discovered the empowering effect of design in a way he could never have imagined.
Issey Miyake, beating out Kate Middleton's wedding gown and the blockbuster "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Following a brief move to New York to work for Geoffrey Beene, Miyake returned to Tokyo in 1970 to open his own design studio.
Wearing collarless Issey Miyake shirts, Girbaud slacks and blazers by his friend Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, Watson would never be mistaken for a banker.
While Miyake is proud of these honors, they don't define him.
Fusa Miyake discovered Carbon-14 and Beryllium-10 traces in tree rings from the era, which point to a gamma ray burst from a celestial body other than the Sun.
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The company has since opened 23 standalone Onitsuka Tiger boutiques in Japan, as well as in Paris, Berlin, London and Seoul, and it collaborates with fashion luminaries like Issey Miyake on sneaker designs.
"This is the result of the failure of the Japanese government to resolve a domestic issue as it had promised to do, " said Kunihiko Miyake, a former foreign ministry official who is now a research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies.
Since returning to London in 1986, Lovegrove has worked with a wide range of clients including Airbus Industries, Peugeot, Apple Computers, Issey Miyake, Olympus Cameras, Tag Heuer, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito Architects in Japan, as well as a host of top design brands.
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