‘People ask me what I do, wafuku which means Japanese clothing, or yofuku which means western clothing. I do not say wafuku or yofuku. I say I make happiness.’⁣ Issey Miyake⁣ ⁣ A quote I pulled as a 19 year old on foundation course for a project ‘East meets West’, where I wrote I about what I loved about Issey’s world and the fusing of influences.⁣ Love how his response politely stops him being categorized or put in a box of doing one or the other.⁣ ⁣ ‘Miyake looks for real challenges and solutions. One of these is found in the relationship between body and clothing, which he has interpreted in many new ways. Miyake succeeds in almost creating design of unpretentious beauty, which seem to come from another world beyond trends and fashions.’ ⁣ Mateo Kries⁣ ⁣ Slide 1 Jun Kano by Irving Penn, 1982. Slide 2-7 from A-POC (A Piece Of Clothing) a collaboration with Dai Fujiwara his protege emerging from the design studio to find ‘a state of clothing that reflects its time and lifestyle’ using technology to make a contribution to environmental protection and the conservation of resources, 1998-2001. Slide 8-9 the pages on Issey in my student project. Slide 10 Claudia Schiffer in the windcoat by Arthur Elgort, 1990.