Fashion & Style Issey Miyake and me In the depths of apartheid South Africa, the Japanese designer offered me a pass into another, extraordinary world – all thanks to a Vogue sewing pattern.

Tribute Issey Miyake changed the way fashion is made, seen and worn The fashion designer, who died of cancer at 84, made clothing that was both theatrical and practical. Peter McNeil, The Conversation ...

Miyake, who had liver cancer, died Aug. 5 in Tokyo at the age of 84. His death was announced on Aug. 9 by the Miyake Design Studio, the trailblazing creative hub he founded in 1970.