Pleats Please Issey Miyake, celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, has become exactly that—a line of amorphous, finely pleated, colorful garments that offer intergenerational appeal to ...

Pleats Please officially launched in 1993, several years after the idea first began percolating in Issey Miyake’s mind. The Hiroshima-born designer began dreaming up new concepts in 1989, after ...

PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE is celebrating its 30th birthday this year, and in honor of the visionary womenswear line, the Japanese fashion House turns to movement.. Speaking on the line, the brand ...

Maybe it’s the 30-year anniversary of Issey Miyake’s iconic Pleats Please line that’s having a ripple effect on the fashion world, but variations on the brand’s signature micro pleats seem ...

Joy Montgomery, senior commerce writer “I first learnt about Issey Miyake’s Pleats Pleats line during an A-level art history lesson (this, in itself, a testament to the cultural impact of the designer ...

The success of Pleats Please in the global market, not as fashion items but as material products, had been preceded by a journey of 20 or so years by the Miyake Design Studio (including, of course ...

Any seasoned Pleats Please Issey Miyake wearer will be more than familiar with the defining qualities – and joy! – that a creation from the brand can bring. Each garment is like a work of art, ...

Models display a Pleats, Please dress as part of Issey Miyake's Ready-to-Wear Autumn-Winter 1995 fashion show in Paris. Miyake developed a new way of pleating fabric by wrapping it between layers ...

PHILIPPE BRAZIL. IT’S RARE TO FIND a piece of clothing that looks as modern — and pristine — as it did 30 years ago. That is what makes Pleats Please Issey Miyake such a phenomenon.