Spring / Summer 2008 Added by ISSEYMIYAKE

ISSEY MIYAKE Spring/Summer 2008 - The Wind design

Paris. October 2007.
Photo: Frederique Dumoulin

Link: http://www.isseymiyake.dyson.com/

The inspiration of ISSEY MIYAKE's Spring/Summer 2008 collection emerged form the idea of wind on catwalk. In the autumn 2006, Dai Fujiwara, the creative director of ISSEY MIYAKE contacted James Dyson, the chairman of Dyson Inc., and suggested cooperation. In December, Fujiwara travelled to Malmesbury to visit the Dyson headquarters. Following their meeting, the Dyson team focsed on exploring the possibilities of using super-scale vacuum cleaner componenets in a catwalk setting. Fujiwara's team began to explore fabrics, colours, patterns and textures inspired by the themes wind and airflow. This included both swatches as well as long tubes, which are manufactured using ISSEY MIYAKE's efficient cloth-cutting technology, a-poc. The results of the collaborative project were launched in October 2007 in Paris.