Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer, dies aged 84 – video obituary

The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, famed for his pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles and who produced the signature black turtleneck of his friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 84. Miyake, whose name became a byword for Japan’s economic and fashion prowess in the 1980s, died on 5 August of liver cancer

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