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I looked it up, and Issey Mikaye seems to have died in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issey_Miyake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issey_Miyake I wonder .

• bborud 1y ago
  I'm pretty confident the answer on both counts would be "no". (This teminds me of a show I once saw where various design students were given the task to design things. Philippe Starck was the judge. One of the students made a iPhone cover and Starck almost blew a gasket. I don't remember exactly what he said when he saw it. But he pointed out that the iPhone itself was a beautiful design so defacing it with an ugly piece of plastic was just a horrific waste of resources. He also said something about objects having to deserve to exist -- though that was probably in a talk he gave at some point. Where he pointed out that his famous Alessi sitrus press was a good example of a pointless object that shouldn't exist. At least it looked good, but it was a pretty poor sitrus press).
• ivirshup 1y ago
  Since Steve's famous turtle neck was from Issey Miyake and he wanted everyone at Apple to wear an Issey Miyake vest as a uniform [1], I think he might have been into this. This is also the man who launched the iPod sock. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve-jobs-and-issey-miyakes-friendship-and-a-nixed-apple-uniform https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve...