About Issey Miyake Pleats Please
Issey Miyake's Pleats Please (1993) revolutionized fashion through engineering rather than ornament — a heat-permanent-pleating technique that turned 100% polyester into sculpted architecture that packs flat and emerges as 3D form. The brand identity reflects this discipline: pure white walls, clean Japanese-modernist sans-serif, and saturated single-pleat-color per composition.
The visual language is engineered, not decorated. Generous white space, a strict modernist grid, and pleated-line textures evoke the flagship boutique's display-stand-as-sculpture ethos. Color enters as a single saturated pleat-tone — cobalt, orange, magenta — never as rainbow. The result feels architectural, warm-engineered, and unmistakably Tokyo.
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Era
- Founded 1970 (Issey Miyake in Tokyo); Pleats Please launched 1993; A-POC 1998; ongoing brand operation
- Key figures
- Issey Miyake · Dai Fujiwara · Yoshiyuki Miyamae · Naoto Fukasawa
- Movements
- Japanese avant-garde fashion · Engineering-as-fashion philosophy · Reality Lab cross-pollination
Issey Miyake Pleats Please design spec
Colors
Typography
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