Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died at the age of 84.
Miyake died on August 5 of liver cancer, Kyodo news agency said. He was famous for his pleated clothing style and the fact that he produced black golf shirts for his friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs.
It is said that Miyake wanted to be either a dancer or an athlete before reading his sister's fashion magazines, which inspired him to change direction.
Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in class. He was reluctant to talk about the incident later. In 2009, writing in the New York Times as part of a campaign to get then US President Barack Obama to visit the city, he said he did not want to be labeled a "designer who survived".
After studying graphic design at an art university in Tokyo, he went to Paris, where he worked with famous designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy, before moving to New York. In 1970, he returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio.
In the late 1980s, Miyake developed a new way of folding by wrapping fabrics between layers of paper and placing them in a heat press, which made the garments retain their folded shape.
He created collections for men and women, bags, watches and perfume before retiring in 1997.
