What was it about @isseymiyakeofficial that incurred such devotion in his wearers? “Don’t think about it. Just put it on. Then we’ll talk,” replied @timblanks when discussing the cult of Issey for our @fthtsi menswear special in September 2020. Blanks was converted in 2013 when he discovered Homme Plisse, a masculine riposte to Pleats Please, on a trip to Tokyo. “I froze. ‘Take me there,’ I pleaded.” Designer @design.by.samuelross thought of his clothes as pieces of art. Gardener @morris_peg converted in the 90s when he discovered Miyake through the magazines he bought as a student. News of the designer’s death at the age of 84 will be a huge sadness to so many of his tribe - @markc_oflaherty @schilvers3 and @loustoppard among them also. But the pleats will live forever #isseymiyake Portraits by @jeffhahnstudio