Vintage Issey Miyake One Legged Wrap Skirt - 1980s

Detail: Rare vintage Issey Miyake grey printed one legged wrap skirt from the mid 1980s. Produced from a summer weight cotton and rayon blended textured fabric which, is printed as seen. The design perfectly illustrates Miyake's innovative driven approach to fashion during this period. Exquisite tailoring throughout, featuring one wide trouser leg with skirt wrap to face. Double button fastening to waist. Long off centre vent to reverse hemline. Collectable. 

Period: 1980s

Condition: Excellent / Near Perfect

Sizing: Small UK10. Waist 28". Hips 41". Length 33"

Colour: Charcoal grey and light grey print

Fabric: 65% cotton 35% Rayon

Origin: Japan

Care: Dry Clean

Vintage Issey Miyake grey printed one legged wrap skirt from the mid 1980s.

Born in 1938, Issey Miyake witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Upon graduating in graphic design in 1964, he worked in Paris and New York before returning to Tokyo to open his own design studio in 1970. Towards the end of the 1980s, Miyake started to experiment with fabric pleating techniques that allowed for ease of movement, as well as ease of care. Garments were produced and then heat sealed in a press. In 1999, Miyake transferred the design of his collections to Naoki Takizawa, so that he could concentrate on full-time research projects. As of 2012, he is one of the co-Directors of “21 21 Design Sight”, Japan’s first design museum.