How did Miyake make Pleats Please garments?

Cut and sewn first, then heat-pleated

Which Paris couturiers did Miyake work for early in his career?

Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld

Issey Miyake Quiz: Pleats Please and Pleated Design

Most pleated clothes start as pleated fabric, but Issey Miyake cut and sewed oversized pieces first and pressed the pleats in afterward, and this Issey Miyake quiz explains why. Play 10 interactive questions on Hiroshima, Pleats Please, A-POC, dancers of the Frankfurt Ballet, Steve Jobs's turtlenecks and the Bao Bao bag.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Pleats
How did Miyake make Pleats Please garments?
Launch
When was the Pleats Please line launched?
Dancers
For which ballet company did Miyake make pleated costumes?
Hometown
In which city was Issey Miyake born?
A-POC
What does A-POC stand for?
Jobs
Which tech leader wore Miyake's black turtlenecks?
Bag
Which bag line uses a grid of triangular pieces?
Perfume
Which 1992 fragrance became a Miyake best seller?
Paris
Which Paris couturiers did Miyake work for early in his career?
Studio
When did Miyake found his design studio in Tokyo?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: How did Miyake make Pleats Please garments?
Answer: Cut and sewn first, then heat-pleated
Pressing the finished garment between paper in a heat press set the pleats permanently.
Q2: When was the Pleats Please line launched?
Answer: 1993
It grew from Miyake's work with pleated costumes.
Q3: For which ballet company did Miyake make pleated costumes?
Answer: William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet
The dancers' movement proved how freely the pleats moved.
Q4: In which city was Issey Miyake born?
Answer: Hiroshima
He survived the 1945 atomic bombing as a child.
Q5: What does A-POC stand for?
Answer: A Piece of Cloth
The 1998 concept with Dai Fujiwara cut garments from a single knitted tube.
Q6: Which tech leader wore Miyake's black turtlenecks?
Answer: Steve Jobs
Jobs asked Miyake to make the turtlenecks he wore almost every day.
Q7: Which bag line uses a grid of triangular pieces?
Answer: Bao Bao
Bao Bao bags shift shape depending on what is inside.
Q8: Which 1992 fragrance became a Miyake best seller?
Answer: L'Eau d'Issey
Its bottle was inspired by the view of the moon over the Eiffel Tower.
Q9: Which Paris couturiers did Miyake work for early in his career?
Answer: Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy
He moved to Paris in the 1960s before founding his own studio.
Q10: When did Miyake found his design studio in Tokyo?
Answer: 1970
Miyake Design Studio became the base for his experiments with fabric.

Issey Miyake Quiz – Engineering With Fabric

Issey Miyake, born in Hiroshima in 1938, studied graphic design in Tokyo and worked in Paris for Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. He founded the Miyake Design Studio in 1970.

Miyake treated clothing as a mix of craft and technology. For Pleats Please, launched in 1993, garments were cut and sewn first, then pleated in a heat press. He tested pleated costumes with dancers of William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet.

With engineer Dai Fujiwara he created A-POC, garments cut from a single tube of cloth. He also made Steve Jobs's black turtlenecks, the triangular Bao Bao bag and L'Eau d'Issey. Miyake died in 2022.

What This Quiz Teaches

Fashion and design fans will enjoy these questions.

How Pleats Please works
Where Miyake trained
What A-POC means
Who wore his turtlenecks
Which products he created

Did You Know?

Pleats Please garments can be rolled up for travel.
Homme Plissé brought pleats to menswear.
Miyake worked with photographer Irving Penn.
He designed for the Barcelona Olympics' Lithuanian team.
He received the Kyoto Prize in 2006.