Issey Miyake Permanente. 1989/90 Autumn-Winter Collection
Tokyo: Issey Miyake International, Inc., 1989. Seven large-format color and black-and-white plates loose in printed paper sleeves (plates measure 20" x 14"), original cardboard portfolio printed to upper panel with string and button closure.
1989/90 Autumn/Winter lookbook for Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake’s early diffusion line Permanente. After years of textile research in pursuit of the best material for the everyday garment, Miyake launched his Plantation line in 1981. Produced from natural materials that maintained a handmade look, the comfortable, stylish, unisex garments were inspired by his favorite looks, lines, and silhouettes from previous collections, and intended to be worn for life. Plantation was renamed Permanente in 1985. To promote the modified line Miyake produced oversized portfolios with his chosen creatives captured by one of his favorite photographers, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon. Each large-format color plate is loose in paper sleeve with biographical text in English and Japanese by writers Rebecca Abrams and Georgina Howell. Subjects here include British-Italian restaurateurs Mara and Lorenzo Berni, Tate Gallery director Nicholas Serota and his wife ballet dancer Angela Serota, writer Frances Partridge, artist Jake Tilson and potter Jennifer Lee, potter and publisher Alex Dufort and his wife sculptor Tania Mosse, architects Hugh and Margaret Casson, and photographer Andrew McPhearson and Doris Cuevas. Plates and sleeves fine, light creasing edgewear to cardboard portfolio.
*Extra shipping charges will be assessed, owing to this book's size*. Item #11479
$250.00