Metal Nº 37

Body and movements, pleats and colours, clothes made with rope, plastic and paper; there are so many elements in Issey Miyake's way of executing fashion. For thirteen years, fashion photographer Irving Penn had been doing his campaigns and, in 1996, he created this incredible visual conversation between sculpture and photography, resulting in an opera of colours! Something funny is that Penn never attended any of Miyake’s shows, and Issey never went to any of his campaigns shootings. The relation was just organic.