collaboration with issey miyake

 

In 2014 fashion designer Issey Miyake created a line of clothing and accessories for his Pleats Please brand inspired by the works of Nagai. Each item was based on a motif of five stylized animals from the poster “Life,” which Nagai painted in 1993.

Poster from LIFE series. A yellow monkey
Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai. A dress with the monkey print

Poster from “LIFE” series, 1993. © DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai, 2014. © Issey Miyake Inc.

Poster from "LIFE" series. A green goat
Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai. A dress with the goat print

Poster from "LIFE" series, 1993. © DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai, 2014. © Issey Miyake Inc.

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai. A white, green and red dress
Three bags with prints of three different creatures

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai, 2014. © Issey Miyake Inc.

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai. A white dress a red print
Poster from LIFE series. A running red lion

Poster from “LIFE” series, 1993. © DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.

Collaboration between Pleats Please Issey Miyake and Kazumasa Nagai, 2014. © Issey Miyake Inc.

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the package can embody certain personal and spiritual values and not only serve a material purpose. this attitude is related to the spirit of the tea ceremony or of zen buddhism. perhaps as a result, many traditional japanese packages display a simple and sober charm rather than being decorative. —kazumasa nagai

Advertisement poster for Asahi beer. Dozens of Asahi beer caps beneath the beer bottle

Advertisement poster for Asahi, 1965.

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