DESIGNER Yoshiyuki Miyamae has taken us back to basics with the Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2019 collection. As everything seems to now be digitalised in fashion, he has refocused back to the history of mankind when everything was made by hand. The same way hands have fought to seek freedom to revolutionise, cloth too seeks freedom. Freedom to create; freedom to feel; freedom to move.
In this collection, Miyamae plays a lot with abstract shapes, which can only be recreated through draping. Free and flexible cloth moulded in a way that invites hands to play with it, as if it’s dough. This is also displayed on the runway when models come out and reshape their hats from one angle or shape to the other.
Boiler-suits with large pockets were seen on the catwalk, followed by oversized jackets with the signature Issey Miyake brand pleats reinvented and developed into a print, and placed strategically on jackets, bags and dresses.
Twisted and crumpled fabric also dominated the runway, creating a wide depth of fabrications and textures to play with and shape with in order to create aesthetically pleasing final pieces.
by Ruth Misamu