Irving Penn regards the work of Issey Miyake

If you can't wear Miyake's designs, you'll definitely want to have the best photos of his work for a feeling of the textures and forms.

A beautifully designed book about a symbiotic relationship between fashion design and fashion photography. Features 136 color photographs by Penn of Miyake's incredible creations.

Dust jacket has minor wear, including a scratch to the back of the jacket. Book is pristine. As-new book in very good jacket. Near fine overall.

"For more than ten years there has been an extraordinary collaboration between Irving Penn, one of the great photographers of the century, and the designer Issey Miyake, one of the few figures to have taken clothes design into the realm of art.
"Penn's photographs allow me to see my own designs," claims Miyake. These photographs define Miyake's work on the printed page.

Miyake's astonishing forms and textures have offered Penn subjects that echo both a primitive tribal beauty and the most futuristic fashion. As the century draws to a close, the barriers that traditionally separated East and West are diminishing. The sources of inspiration for both men are global, stretching from Africa to Miyake's Japan. This book is a culmination of a certain period in their creative lives." - from the dust jacket flap

11 x 12.7 inches