Issey Miyake L'Eau Pour Homme Summer EDT Spray, 125 ml 3423474887552

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Pleats took on swirling formations, looking like tide pools or traditional Japanese gardens, adding circular dimension to angular dresses in jade or fuchsia.

For Issey Miyake, the quietly transgressive Japanese designer who passed away in August, everything began and ended with fabric. Through technical innovation and novel technique, his early work established him as a pioneer in the realm of material development. Alongside his textile director Makiko Minagawa, who helped bring Miyake's ideas to life in the ‘80s and ’90s, the designer proposed radical new ways to understand the clothing-making process, incorporating unorthodox materials like pineapple, bamboo, and jute, often treated with then-unusual plant-based dyes. More scalloping adorned the lapels of coats, bringing the arms out and forward of the garment for something that combined a vest with a coat, and was frankly moving as the pianist began to build suspense. Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey Pour Homme Summer 2017 opens with a moderate projection of mostly cypress and grapefruit. The opening has an aquatic, seawater salty vibe, bitter, and pleasant. The coriander and nutmeg are soft spicy touches, similarly, the kiwi and pineapple are faint notes almost completely behind the more noticeable cypress and grapefruit. The grapefruit comes across as a very bitter and slightly dirty citrus note; the cypress brings a noticeable fresh, herbaceous, spicy, and woody note. As the fragrance commences to dry-down, the vetiver becomes more noticeable adding its earthy, grassy, woody, and green touch. The fragrance is linear, most of the featured notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry-down, except for the vetiver which intensifies towards the dry. Once Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey Pour Homme Summer 2017 has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, grapefruit, cypress, and vetiver fragrance with soft spicy accords. The fragrance feels very bitter, breeze, casual, classy, dense, earthy, fresh, grassy, intense, long-lasting, marine, mature, oceanic, seawater/salty-like, sporty, tropical, versatile, woody, and pleasant. A star-like creation for Issey Miyake during the 1999-2000 autumn-winter ready-to-wear collections. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/EPAThe show, titled “A Form That Breathes,” promised a collection that moved with life. It wants to envelop the body not to constrain, but to become a part of oneself, not confining you physically or mentally. It’s an apparent thread throughout the Issey Miyake universe, a world of clothing that’s continually shape-shifting and playing with life around it, its forms often springing into action when being worn. OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, gym, office, casual, holidays, vacations. This is an office-friendly fragrance.

Now, hems and hips were nipped, rippled, pinched and folded, creating athletic and sea creature-like shapes all over the body thanks to the use of ribbed knits. DISLIKE RATING: 4/10. The fragrance is very bitter, the cypress and vetiver are strong and give the fragrance a classy vibe.There was nowhere to study couture, so, once Japan permitted travel abroad on a tiny budget, he went to Paris in 1965 for a course at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, and interned for Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. The important Parisian education, though, was the student protests of 1968, revolting against the haute-bourgeoisie, usual customers for couture. Miyake sided with the students, wanting to make clothes, both wilder and more useful, for ordinary people, unconstrained by age, size, gender or fit. A-PoC Le Feu, by Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara, 1999, an example of Miyake’s A-PoC (A Piece of Cloth) concept – extruded tubular fabric that wearers could cut out into seamless garments. Photograph: Yasuaki Yoshinaga/A-PoC Le Feu, Issey Miyake

It's a pity this is not a powerhouse, which generally is a 'must' for me, but I bought it anyway and I don't regret it. Projection is heavy for the first 2h, moderate for 2 to 3h more, and now it's soft. I don't know how long will it last. I'll make another review in the near future. All in all, Issey Miyake SS23 wasn’t just a tribute, it was an empowering and emotional depiction of Miyake’s spirit, one that drove hundreds to see this show-stopping occasion. Miyake went on to New York in 1969 as an assistant for Geoffrey Beene, to learn about mass production. But in 1970, another bout of radiation-related disease returned him to Tokyo for treatment, where friends loaned him the money to start Miyake Design Studio. In his remarkable first show in Tokyo, a model stripped off many layers until nude, a scandal that alarmed his sponsors and made clear his originality. Miyake kept the sorrows of his childhood private until 2009, and remained secretive about his personal life: his closest companions were his work collaborators, especially the studio president, Midori Kitamura, a former model.

The scent is soooo good. The mid accord of pineapple-nutmeg is surprising. Very fresh citrusy fruit well balanced balanced with spices, cypress and vetiver. A keen sportsman, function became the linchpin of Miyake’s work. His most famous and most affordable clothes, the Pleats Please line, was launched in 1993 as a retort to the price and unwearability of high-end fashion.

Step into a world where timeless elegance meets modern innovation with Issey Miyake Fragrances. Discover an olfactory journey like no other, where each scent is a testament to the brand’s iconic style and unwavering commitment to sustainability. Very fresh, delicious fragrance. Best for summer days and nights (whoever has voted best for winter must be joking or a troll...). This really reminds me of Versace Man Eau Fraiche and indeed has saved me from purchasing a new bottle of that as it gives me the exact same vibe - Eau Fraiche might have a bit more depth to it but at this price I ain't gonna argue. Models display creations from Issey Miyake’s spring/summer 2023 men’s collection during Paris fashion week in June. Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA

Issey Miyake’s SS23 collection can be seen in the gallery above, sitting alongside more Paris Fashion Week SS23 content across Hypebeast. In a rare 2009 op-ed for the New York Times, Miyake recounted just how much that day, and his mother’s subsequent death, informed his creativity. “I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic. In 1973, he began to show in Paris, distinctively different from other Japanese designers arriving there. His regular collections of sculptured, high-end clothes were spectacular, but the real fun came with a change of focus to volume production ready-to-wear lines through the 1990s. They brought him nearer his ideal, unfashiony customers. With a delicate blend of nature and technology, each fragrance captures the essence of pure beauty, transporting you to a realm of sophistication and tranquility. Indeed, it was in memory of the late founder and creative director, Mr Miyake. As the house’s designer Satoshi Kondo noted, “we see design as a process driven by curiosity, built upon a comprehensive exploration — bringing joy, wonder, and hope to life, and of course with a touch of playfulness.”