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A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE introduces the TYPE-Ⅰ MM project, which is a collaboration with conductor Michiyoshi Inoue. “TYPE-Ⅰ” is a project that creates clothes with Triporous™, a material developed by Sony Group using rice husks as a raw material, mixed into the thread. Through this project, we have reached a new potential for a “special kind of black” that is not achievable through conventional dyeing techniques.
For the “TYPE-Ⅰ MM project,” we have also further expanded the potential of Triporous™ through this endeavor with Mr. Inoue, who has flourished for many years on the world stage. What garment is both as exquisite as formal wear and also embodies the fun of wearing it, while enveloping the physique of a conductor or performer in comfort? What should a garment do to continue updating itself, just as classical music updates itself through repeat performances? This is an attempt to bring together a performance by a new ensemble of clothing, music, and people. The special black fabric with Triporous™ mixed into it was made to have further freedom in movement and an even lighter feel by adding pleats through the “Steam Stretch” technique. The many variations of the monochromatic stripes come together to resemble a musical score in the stand collar jacket, pants, and dress styles.

The “TYPE-Ⅰ MM project” is a collection that is accompanied by music. The documentary footage that follows the process of this project was shot and edited by film director, Yu Yamanaka. The music performed by the 65-member orchestra assembled under the direction of Mr.Inoue reverberates around the space. The music is Toru Takemitsu's Waltz (from Face of Another) from Three Film Scores and Akira Ifukube's second movement: Fête from Japanese Rhapsody. The baton moves through the air, the chords are plucked, air blows through the reeds, and the mallet jumps. Each of these movements resemble a dialogue with a new garment. And the overlapping water, fields, rice husks, loom, needle, and movements of people's hands are woven into the beautiful refrain and harmony.
Clothes-making itself is also an ensemble of nature, technology, and people. And it comes to fruition as “a piece of cloth” at A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE. The “TYPE-Ⅰ MM project” is a collection that sheds new light on clothes-making from the richly productive relationship between music and people.

TYPE-Ⅰ MM project

Styles: Jacket (1), Dresses (2), Pants (2), Shirt (1)
Colors: Black, Black-based

From Wednesday, November 1 to Thursday, December 14, we will have a special screening of a 14-minute documentary film about the “TYPE-Ⅰ MM project” at A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE / AOYAMA, A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE / KYOTO, and ISSEY MIYAKE GINZA / 442. 

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