These photographs display the extraordinary collaboration between Irving Penn and the designer Issey Miyake. Original white paper covered boards with the titles in grey to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. outlining the creative relationship between the two artists, a 9 minute 58 second animation was directed by pascal roulin.

Inscribed by Issey Miyake in black marker pen on the half title to the celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser, creator of the "I heart NY" logo. Penn and Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer had a deep creative understanding of each other's work, having met in 1983. Obwohl als "gebraucht" gekauft war es im sehr guten Zustand, sehr gut für den Versand verpackt und kam pünktlich zur Feier an. It’s an outfit that speaks with great understatement about the relationship between fashion and photography, about the inventiveness and imagination shared between practitioners from adjacent visual fields, and about the need for critical distance and critical friends. Miyake's astonishing forms and textures offered Penn subjects that echo both a primitive tribal beauty and the most futuristic fashion.Glam (2) vol softbound folio set from museum exhibition in Tokyo in 1990 Issey Miyake (22 April 1938- 5 August 2022) was a Japanese fashion designer. the photographs of miyake’s designs taken by penn were composited into posters by graphic designer ikko tanaka. Collecting photographs taken between 1975-1998, this bright and still forward-thinking fashion book shows how Irving Penn captured the work of Issey Miyake, and explores the artistic relationship between Penn, one of the most prominent photographers of the 20th century and Miyake, the iconic fashion designer.

This book springs from Penn’s huge regard for the Japanese designer -and his recognition that the photographs depict pure, timeless and sculptural designs, designs that run counter to all the eroticism displayed in fashion. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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.

Following a session, Penn would then send the complete run of transparencies generated to Miyake in Tokyo, who would use them to review his design work and as the springboard for new design directions.

To look at the photographs is to see how Penn essentializes Miyake’s designs, bestowing them with a graphic clarity and a highly dynamic sense of how they can be worn. Volume One: 40 pages, with text in English and Japanese, illustrated with 3 color plates and others in black and white; Volume Two: 24 pages, 14-color illustrations and a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa, in English and Japanese.From a young age, Miyake respected artist Isamu Noguchi, whose newness and sense of fun in his designs inspired Miyake. He was enrolled in English classes at Columbia University and worked on Seventh Avenue for designer Geoffrey Beene.