The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake died on Friday due to complications of liver cancer. He was 84. Miyake, with his sculptural and origami-like designs that helped define Japan’s post-war modernism, was a perennial go-to for outfitting the art world. In 1982, he became the first fashion designer to have his work featured on the cover of Artforum (@artforum). His clothes evoked a hard-to-identify sense of place, an almost pan-global aesthetic of harmony and freedom of movement. At times his interests were otherworldly, such as his sci-fi flying-saucer regalia; elsewhere he wielded tropes from Bedouin garments and ancient Japanese theater. An explorer of shape, Miyake was renowned for developing an innovative permanent pleat that rendered polyester into accordion-like, wrinkle-proof high fashion. (He also designed Steve Jobs’s famous black turtleneck.) Click the link in our bio to read more about Miyake’s life and legacy on #ArtnetNews. __ Photos: Issey Miyake at the Vitra Design Museum in Berlin in 2001. Photo by Sauer/ullstein bild via Getty Images; A model in a pleated creation for ISsey Miyake’s Fall 1995 show in Paris. Photo by Daniel SIMON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. #IsseyMiyake