In this photo, Mylene is with Issey Miyake, revolutionary Japanese designer. He passed away this August (2022) at the age of 84.
These photos of Mylène are from the Spring/Summer 1994 Prêt-à-porter show.
Mylène wore many outfits from the Issey Miyake Spring-Summer 1990/1991 collections for her comeback album L’autre… for photo shoots and television appearances, including the outfit for the song L’autre… on the TV show “Stars 90” on TF1 on May 13th 1991
about Issey Miyake
“This is my touchstone. I think all forms of creativity are connected.”
Miyake was born in Hiroshima, and was only seven years old when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War II. “When I close my eyes, I still see things that no one should ever experience.”
As a student, Miyake undertook a degree in graphic design at Tama University of Art in Tokyo, before moving to Paris in 1965 after being admitted to the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.
Miyake’s revolutionary interest in the intersection of art, technology and the human form was evident from his first collection. At his first Fall/Winter 1971 presentation, portraits of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were printed on dresses and jumpsuits in the style of Japanese tattoos. Most famously, in the late 1980s, Miyake developed an innovative new pleating method, which involved heat-pressing polyester to create permanent pleats; this fabric later became his signature line “Pleats, Please” in 1993.
