1978 | Issey Miyake East Meets West Photobook | Rare.

Very good condition. Outsize softcover with French flap covers. 216 pages.

Published in 1978 by Heibonsha, designed by the legendary Japanese graphic designer Ikko Tanaka and stunningly illustrated with color and b/w photographs by some of the best photographers in the world showing models wearing designs by Miyake, this very rare and beautiful 36,5x25x2cm book is an overview of his work, covering the years when he refined his fundamental concept of “one piece of cloth”, merging the labels of “East” and “West”, and it's the first monograph of a living fashion designer to be published in the world.