RECOMMENDED READ: "How Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Redefined the Fashion Photograph," an essay about the creative exchange between two titans gave clothing a voice of its own, written by Alistair O’Neill for Aperture (@aperturefnd).⁠ •⁠ "The late Japanese fashion designer #IsseyMiyake held a rare appreciation for the role of image-making in design creativity. His longstanding working relationship with the photographer Irving Penn, whom he called Penn-san, is testament to Miyake’s understanding of how he could regard his work anew, by looking at it through the creative eye of another."⁠ ⁠•⁠ "In an essay for the 1997 exhibition catalogue "Irving Penn: A Career in Photography," Miyake reflected, “Through his eyes Penn-san reinterprets the clothes, gives them new breath, and presents them to me from a new vantage point—one that I may not have been aware of, but had been subconsciously trying to capture. Without Penn-san’s guidance, I probably could not have continued to find new themes with which to challenge myself, nor could I have arrived at new solutions.” He ends by crediting Penn’s influence on his invention of permanently pleated garments, known as Pleats Please."⁠ •⁠ Images: Irving Penn, “Issey Miyake Fashion, White and Black” New York, 1990; "Issey Miyake Fashion: Face Covered with Hair (A)", New York, 1991; "Issey Miyake Poncho and Apron Belt" New York, 1987. Images courtesy of the artist and Aperture.