Homme Plissé Issey Miyake would be the star attraction and visitor of honor on the upcoming June version of Pitti, menswear’s most prestigious worldwide salon.
Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2025 assortment – Courtesy
The famend Japanese label will stage an Italian-inspired runway present in Florence at Pitti from Tuesday, June 17, to Friday, June 20. “The presence of Homme Plissé Issey Miyake at the upcoming Pitti Uomo in June fills us with pride and excitement,” stated Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine.
Being chosen as Pitti’s visitor of honor is among the biggest accolades in males’s trend. Earlier company embody influential designers equivalent to Giorgio Armani, Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Haider Ackermann, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, Yohji Yamamoto, and Valentino.
“We are pleased to announce that Homme Plissé Issey Miyake is soon to embark on a new creative adventure. Marking the first occasion of this adventure is our participation in Pitti Immagine Uomo in June 2025,” the home stated in an announcement on Wednesday.
“We feel grateful for this opportunity to be featured at one of the most celebrated menswear events in the world. On this occasion, we will present our spring/summer 2026 collection to a local and international audience in Florence, created based on our research and field studies carried out during our travels across Italy,” the home added.
One in all Japan’s biggest designers, Issey Miyake, based his eponymous home in 1970. He constructed an iconic physique of labor outlined by technologically pushed materials, inventive silhouettes, distinctive collaborations, and a long-term fascination with pleated textiles—therefore the gathering’s title.
A brand new chapter for Homme Plissé Issey Miyake. – © Issey Miyake Inc
The Homme Plissé Issey Miyake present will happen on Wednesday, June 18, although the precise location has not been revealed. Visitor designers usually choose historic websites in and round Florence, the capital of the Renaissance, which presents no scarcity of distinctive and hanging venues. Jonathan Anderson staged his present within the lavish Villa La Pietra, the previous house of author and aesthete Harold Acton, whereas Hugo Boss as soon as introduced a group in a Renaissance villa designed by Michelangelo.
“We have long hoped to associate the name of this great Japanese brand with our event, and today we can finally share a long-awaited announcement: Homme Plissé Issey Miyake will be the guest of honor at Pitti Uomo 108. This is our way of recognizing and celebrating the quality, creativity, and originality of the brand, its success on a global scale—and, at the same time, highlighting its current creative direction, which has successfully reinterpreted the quiet, elegant magic of its founder: one of the designers, one of the artists, who shaped the history of fashion in the twentieth century,” added Napoleone.
The home of Miyake additional introduced that its go to to Pitti would mark the start of a brand new period through which “the brand will travel around the world to present its clothing in places and at events where it has never been before, meeting local communities and connecting with a global creative scene.”
It didn’t disclose when or the place these occasions—for women and men—would happen, noting that they might be staged outdoors of the standard runway calendar.
Nonetheless, the home emphasised that each its newly created IM Males collections will proceed to be introduced twice a 12 months in the course of the official menswear runway season in Paris in January and June.
Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2025 assortment – Courtesy
In the meantime, its signature Issey Miyake womenswear assortment—now beneath Satoshi Kondo’s design route—will proceed to be proven in the course of the Paris girls’s ready-to-wear season in March and October.
Issey Miyake – Fall-Winter 2025/26 – Girls’s Prepared-to-Put on – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
Kondo’s newest assortment in March was a visually hanging show held on the Carrousel du Louvre. It opened with white cotton T-shirt attire seemingly invaded by purple ribbed knits or pleated cocktail attire twisted into unique swirls—suggesting that they had lives of their very own. Later, Kondo paired mannish blazers with dramatically inverted shirts, their sleeves cascading earlier than the waist. The present acquired the most important applause of the season in Paris.
Together with these 4 signature exhibits in Paris, the model additionally plans to “travel and acquire knowledge and experiences. We believe that our work will continue to evolve by establishing strong footholds that inspire our designs. By engaging in our craft in different cultural contexts, we aim to develop a wider range of clothing that is more diverse, yet still universal.”
The home concluded, “We also look forward to exploring new formats to communicate who we are as a brand. ”
