Design Storytelling

How I would love a chance to see this new exhibition in Tokyo - Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue. One of my favourite photographers and one of my favourite designers worked together for 13 years. What’s more, the exhibition is designed by one of my favourite architects Shigeru Ban. Aesthetic heaven.

I dearly hope this will become a touring show, and make its way to London soon enough.

Amazingly Penn never went to a Miyake fashion show and Miyake never attended a photo shoot of his clothes by Penn. They both wanted the results to be a surprise every time. As designboom writes: “Their collaboration was based on complete creative trust.”

Together, but apart, they created iconic images of great beauty. I still treasure those first Penn/Miyake silhouette images I tore out of fashion magazines as a teenager and put on my wall.