The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, famed for his pleated style of clothing and for producing the signature black turtleneck of his friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs, has died. He was 84.
Miyake is heralded as one of the most pioneering designers of the 20th century. “In Paris, we call the people who make clothing couturiers – they develop new clothing items – but actually the work of designing is to make something that works in real life,” Miyake once said of his design mantra.
