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Issey Miyake, Carnegie Hall Fashion Show, 1990
Issey Miyake
Carnegie Hall
New York, United States
Born in Hiroshima, 1938, Miyake is honored as a founder of Japanese avant-garde fashion movement. He was trained in graphic design and studied tailoring in Paris. He had been known for his loose, unstructured clothes. But, for the the 1989-1990 seasons, he was experimenting with the stretch polyesters, very short shorts (on stage right models) and cropped bodices (stage left), shown here over body suits.
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- Title: Issey Miyake, Carnegie Hall Fashion Show, 1990
- Creator: Issey Miyake
- Fashion House: Issey Miyake
- Provenance: May 16, 1990, the stage of Carnegie Hall was transformed into a fashion runway for An Evening of Fashion & Music at Carnegie Hall. For the first time in the United States, nineteen top international fashion designers joined in a cooperative effort to present creations from each of their Fall 1990 collections, in a gala benefit for Carnegie Hall.
- Fashion Show: Carnegie Hall Fashion Show
- Season: Fall 1990
- Type: Shorts and cropped bodices over body suits
- Photographer: Steve J. Sherman
- Medium: Stretch polyesters
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