Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]Aug 9 (ANI): After learning about the passing away of Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, fashionista Sonam Kapoor Ahuja offered her heartfelt condolences.
Sonam wrote on Instagram, “My mother’s favorite… my introduction to fashion. This is so bad.”
Indian fashion designer Manish Malhotra also condoled the death of Issey Miyake.
Sharing a picture of the late designer, Manish wrote, “The fashion world has lost a visionary.”
According to CNN, Miyake died of cancer on August 5. He was 84 years old.
A funeral service with his family and close friends had already been held, with his office saying a memorial ceremony would not be held as the designer wished.
Miyake was part of a wave of young Japanese designers who made their mark in Paris from the mid-1970s. Today, his designs are preserved at institutions including London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Miyake was born in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1938. The bomb dropped on the city in 1945 left him with an apparent lameness that would follow him through adulthood, and his mother died three years later from radiation exposure, CNN reported.
Miyake has received several awards for his work as a fashion designer and an artist. In 2005, the Japan Arts Association awarded him a Premium Imperial for outstanding achievement in the arts. A year later he became the first fashion designer to receive the Kyoto Prize in Art and Philosophy for Lifetime Achievement.
The designer was also known for creating the signature black turtleneck for his friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs. (ANI)
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