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December 12, 2024
The home of Issey Miyake has unveiled plans to stage a debut runway present of its IM Males assortment in the course of the subsequent French menswear season in January in Paris. “We are pleased to inform you, that starting from the next Paris Men’s Fashion Week, Autumn Winter 2025/26 season in January 2025, we will present the collection from IM Men,” learn a joint assertion from Midori Kitamura and Hiroki Kaito, respectively the chairman and CEO of Miyake.
The IM Males design triumvirate – Sen Kawahara, Yuki Itakura and Nobutaka Kobayashi, – Issey Miyake
Launched in 2021 beneath path of founder Issey Miyake, IM Males creates clothes designed to mirror the apply of integrating design and engineering. The gathering can be introduced in Paris on Thursday, January 23, the third day of the six-day Paris menswear season that ends on Sunday, January 26. The gathering can be stay streamed on the model’s official web site and on IM Males’s Instagram account.
The Miyake Design Studio inventive workforce is led by a triumvirate consisting of Sen Kawahara and Yuki Itakura, each chargeable for design/engineering, and Nobutaka Kobayashi, accountable for textile design/engineering. All three of those designers have been with the home for over a decade. “Together, they set out to redefine clothing with the approach to both a garment’s form-making and its construction— developing and advancing clothes-making as derived from the philosophy of a piece of cloth,” the home confused. In a reference the founder’s revelation that he had been impressed by designer Madelaine Vionnet’s use of geometric calculations and “a single piece of beautiful cloth.” Final 12 months, the home debuted the very first IM Males pop-up retailer in London to check the waters – retailing very trend ahead concepts like three-dimensional constructions, no-sew knits and sudden supplies. Although based in Tokyo, the home of Miyake has staged its males’s and girls’s runway reveals in Paris for the reason that Seventies in numerous iterations and with totally different assortment titles. The Homme Plissé Issey Miyake assortment was first introduced in Paris in 2019, and over the past 5 years it has grown right into a celebrated division of the Japanese model. “We have made new plans for (Homme Plissé Issey Miyake collection) as it moves forward and continues to evolve. We will share more information with you in the spring of next year,” the 2 executives cautioned. Famed for his expertise pushed clothes, Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and was residing within the metropolis when it was hit by an atomic bomb in August 1945. He died, after changing into a bona fide trend legend, aged 84 in August 2022.
