Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died, aged 84.
The designer and founder of his namesake fashion brand died of liver cancer on Friday 5 August, the Kyodo news agency has said.
In a brief release from the Miyake Design Studio and the Issey Miyake Group, it added that he was “surrounded by close friends and associates” at the time of his passing.
As per the designer’s wishes, there will be no memorial service or funeral.
Miyake was known for producing the signature black turtleneck worn by Apple founder Steve Jobs and for his pleated style of clothing.
He was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and was seven years old when the atomic bomb dropped on the city. he was studying in a classroom at the time.
Within three years, Miyake’s mother had died from radiation from the bomb, but the designer was reluctant to speak of the event throughout his career.
In a letter sent to then-US president Barack Obama in 2009 in a bid to get him to visit the city, Miyake said he did not want to be labelled as “the designer who survived” the bomb.
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