Irving Penn on Issey Miyake

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Near Fine hardcover with a hint of soiling and a touch of tanning to the edges of the pages; no dj as issued. It’s an outfit that materializes Miyake’s principle that we all should continue to live by: “One always needs someone who can look over one’s shoulder and evaluate one’s work from a detached and objective point of view—someone who can act as a sounding board. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear. A fine copy, the binding square and firm with slight dustiness along the top and bottom edges of the boards.

And this clarity arises, according to Holborn, in how “the work of one provides a mirror for the work of the other. Penn would sit at a table with a pencil and paper and sketch as models wearing the designs were directed. The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated.Near-fine copies, wrappers a touch sunned, but uncreased and binding still firm; in the original folder, sunned at spine and creased at extremities. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

In an essay for the 1997 exhibition catalogue Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Miyake reflected, “Through his eyes Penn-san reinterprets the clothes, gives them new breath, and presents them to me from a new vantage point—one that I may not have been aware of, but had been subconsciously trying to capture. Published to coincide with Miyake's A ÛN show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, October 5 to December 31, 1988. From a young age, Miyake respected artist Isamu Noguchi, whose newness and sense of fun in his designs inspired Miyake. Given absolute artistic license to interpret and photograph Miyake's designs in surprising ways, Penn achieved this with inventive and unexpected photographs, still framed against his signature pure white backdrops. through the photographer’s lens, the texture, shapes and forms went beyond clothing and instead transformed into art.

P." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent. Two-volume catalogue for the exhibition of both Penn and Miyake "Issey Miyake: Pleats Please", at the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1 -30 Septembre 1990. The models all were draped in garments of bright colors and intricate patterns and pose in an almost theatrical manner.