It is rehearsal day for Japanese designer Issey Miyake and the 61-year-old fashion innovator is pumped. This is his first Tokyo fashion show in five years and he’s keen to share his new concept in DIY clothing: ‘A revolutionary idea called A-POC’ – an abbreviation of A Piece of Cloth – writes Tamsan Blanchard in the Observer Magazine on 25 April 1999. ‘He has not been so excited about one of his own products since Pleats Please was launched in 1993.’
