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Issey Miyake<\/strong> died on the evening of 5 August<\/strong>, an employee at his Tokyo<\/strong> office told AFP<\/strong>. The Japanese fashion designer had been suffering from liver cancer for several years. Respecting the designer’s wishes, no memorial service will be held, according to the Business of Fashion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Issey Miyake, famous for his wrinkle-free clothing style, was born on 22 April 1938<\/strong> in Hiroshima<\/strong> and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Issey Miyake survived the bombing on 6 August 1945<\/strong>, but his mother died three years later from the bomb’s radiation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To cope with this dramatic episode in his life, he promised himself to follow his dreams and do everything he could to achieve them. In 1958<\/strong>, he went to Tokyo<\/strong> to study design at the Tama University of Fine Arts<\/strong> and became interested in garment manufacturing. In the 1960s<\/strong>, Issey Miyake defined himself as an artist in his own right and set out to revolutionise the textile industry by redefining the way clothes were made and designed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After studying design in Tokyo, he learned garment design in Paris<\/strong>, where he worked with famous fashion designers such as Guy Laroche<\/strong> and Hubert de Givenchy<\/strong>, before moving to New York<\/strong>. In 1970<\/strong>, he returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the 1980s, the designer developed a new method of pleating by wrapping fabrics in layers of paper and placing them in a heat press, the garments retain their pleated shape and never wrinkle. This new method was the guiding principle behind his iconic “Pleats, Please”<\/strong> line.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n