Founded in Tokyo by designer Issey Miyake, who established the Miyake Design Studio in 1970 and showed in Paris from 1973. The house is known for treating clothing as a union of fabric, body, and movement. Signature lines include Pleats Please, launched in 1993 with heat-pressed permanent pleats, and Homme Plissé, along with the A-POC concept of garments made from a single thread. Light, packable, and sculptural, it sits at the crossroads of fashion, technology, and Japanese craft.