Drawn to Design

Image courtesy of Issey Miyake.

Last week, Issey Miyake Homme Plissé released the first round of items from its Autumn/Winter 2024/25 menswear collection, created in collaboration with Ronan Bouroullec. The collection, titled Immersed in the Wilds of Creativity, debuted at Paris Fashion Week Men’s this past January against a backdrop of the artist and designer’s felt-tip drawings that lined the walls of the Palais de Tokyo. Inside the famed museum, models were draped in voluminous silks adorned with Bouroullec’s drawings translated in precise embroidery November.

Image courtesy of Issey Miyake.

Highlights from the first release include a drawing coat in which abstract shapes are silkscreen-printed onto a cream-colored polyester with the collection’s signature A-Line silhouette and standing collar. Some designs play with the white space in Bouroullec’s drawings, while other garments are fully enveloped in the artist’s lively lines. The dynamism of the prints is further amplified by extended shoulders, sleeves, and hems that effortlessly drape over the body.

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The inspiration for the collaboration can be traced back to Bouroullec’s formative years, when he traveled to Paris at 16 years old in 1987 to see an exhibition of Issey Miyake’s work. Following that fateful visit, he has produced numerous furniture pieces alongside his brother, including the hanging Aim light and the intricately knitted Slow Chair. In 2000, Bouroullec designed Issey Miyake’s A-POC store in Paris. Now, he has turned his sights to fashion for the first time in a full circle moment that builds on both his life-long affinity for drawing and his connection to the late designer and his eponymous brand.