Issey Miyake 三宅一生

1960

• Sent a letter to the World Design Conference while still a student at Tama Art University

1962

• Produced clothing for Toyo Rayon (now Toray Industries, Inc.) 1963 calendar

1963

• Showed first collection, Poems of Cloth and Stone

1965

• Studied at L'École de la Chambre Syndicale, Paris
• Worked as an assistant at two haute couture houses

1968

• Decided to make clothing for many people after encountering the events of May 1968 in Paris

1969

• Worked in ready-to-wear in New York. Return to Japan

1970

• Established MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO
• Participated in the Toray Knit Exhibiton. Unveiled a unit fashion approach called Constructible Clothes

1971

• Presented the first ISSEY MIYAKE overseas collection (Spring/Summer 1971) in New York

1973

• Participated in the Paris Autumn/Winter 1973 Collections for the first time and, since then, has shown there twice a year

1975

• Planned the exhibiton Gendai Ifuku no Genryu Ten - Inventive Clothes: 1909-1039, hold at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

1976

• Presented Issey Miyake and Twelve Black Girls, a show at the Seibu Theatre, Tokyo and Osaka Municipal Gymnasium
• ISSEY MIYAKE flagship store opened in the From 1st Building in Minami Aoyama

1977

• Presented A Piece Of Cloth - Issey Miyake in Museum, a show at the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, to coincide with the 1976 Mainichi Design Award
• Presented Fly with ISSEY MIYAKE, a show at the Meiji Jingu Indoor Field, Tokyo and Kyoto Prefectural Gymnasium
• Announced ISSEY MIYAKE MEN brand

1978

• Participated in MA Espace - Temps du Japon, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs during the Festival d'Automne, Paris, and subsequently at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York in 1979.
• The Book Issey Miyake East Meets West published by Heibonsya Limited to coincide with the 1976 Mainichi Design Award

1979

• Invited to present the show Issey Miyake East Meets West, as the closing event at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado.

1980

• Produced costumes for Casta Diva, a spectacle based upon a script by Maurice Béjart

1981

• Announced the Plantation bland

1982

• Presented Spring/Summer 1983 collection on the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier and museum in New York, with the announcement of Plantation at the beginning

1983

• Presented ISSEY MIYAKE SPECTACLE: BODYWORKS, an exhibition at the Laforet Iikura Museum, Tokyo. Also traveled to Los Angeles and San Fransisco and in 1985 to London.
• Publisched Issey Miyake Bodyworks by shogakukan Inc.

1985

• Announced ISSEY MIYAKE PERMANENTE
• ISSEY MIYAKE MEN shown for the first time in Paris with the Autumn/Winter 1985 Collection
• Featured in Time magazine, US Edition: January 27, as its cover story written by Jay Cocks

1986

• Started collaborating with Irving Penn on photographs of the collections
• Publication of Lord Snowdon's Seasonal ISSEY MIYAKE PERMANENTE (private pablication) volumes began

1988

• Presented CICADA, clothing that originated the concept of product pleats, at the Spring/Summer 1989 ISSEY MIYAKE collection
• Presented ISSEY MIYAKE A-ŪN, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

1989

• Organized Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, an exhibition of Dame Lucie Rie at Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo / Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

1990

• Presented TEN SEN MEN, a commemorative exhibition of the Hiroshima Art Prize at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
• Participated in Energieën (Energies), an exhibition featuring Rhythm Pleats at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Presented ISSEY MIYAKE PLEATS PLEASE, an exhibition at the Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

1991

• Presented pleated clothing made from a special jersey fabric, a prototype that would later become "PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE"; first shown in Paris in March
• Designed the costumes for the Ballett Frankfurt's The Loss of Small Detail choreographed by William Forsythe

1992

• Designed and produced the official uniform for the Lithuanian team at the 25th Olympic Games in Barcelona
• Presented ISSEY MIYAKE TWIST, an exhibition at the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa

1993

• Announced PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE brand

1996

• Presented PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE Guest Artist Series No.1 Yasumasa Morimura. This series was followed by No.2 Nobuyoshi Araki in 1997, as well as No.3 Tim Hawkinson and No.4 Cai Guo-Qiang in 1998.

1997

• Presented ISAMU NOGUCHI and ISSEY MIYAKE "ARIZONA", an exhibition at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

1998

• Embarked upon the A-POC project
• Presented ISSEY MIYAKE MAKING THINGS, an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Paris that later traveled to the Ace Gallery, New York in 1999 and to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 2000

1999

• Published Irving Penn regards the work of Issey Miyake by Jonathan Cape
• Announced A-POC brand

2001

• Presented A-POC MAKING: ISSEY MIYAKE AND DAI FUJIWARA, an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, Berlin
• Participated in Radical Fashion, an exhibition featuring A-POC at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2003

• Presented Nannano? A-POC MIYAKE ISSEY + FUJIWARA DAI, an exhibition at the Axis gallery, Tokyo.

2004

• Established THE MIYAKE ISSEY FOUNDATION
• Co-organized Dahomey 1967: Photographs by Irving Penn, an exhibition at the Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum,) Tokyo
• Participated in The Encounters in the 21st Century, an exhibition featuring a special-edition piece A-POC Kanazawa for the opening exhibition of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2005

• Participated in BIG BANG : DESTRUCTION ET CRÉATION DANS L'ART DU XXE SIÈCLE, an exhibition featuring PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Collaborated with Tadanori Yokoo on ISSEY MIYAKE Paris Collections 1977-1999: Invitations by Tadanori Yokoo, an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

2006

• A-POC Queen added to permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York in the "Architecture & Design" archive

2007

• Opened 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo Midtown. Appointed as one of its directors

2008

• Directed XXIst Century Man, at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT’s third exhibition

2009

• Directed U-Tsu-Wa, – Lucie Rie, Jenifer Lee, Ernst Gamperl an exhibition at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2010

• Announced 132 5. ISSEY MIYAKE brand
• Directed REALITY LAB, an exhibition at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2011

• THE MIYAKE ISSEY FOUNDATION was approved by the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan as a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation
• Directed The Spirit of Tohoku: "Clothing" by Issey Miyake, a special exhibition at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2013

• Planned and produced the Aomori University Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Team performance held at Yoyogi National Stadium 2nd Gymnasium in Tokyo. The costumes he created for the performance were developed into “HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE.”
• Announced HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE brand

2014

• Participated in Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain 30th Anniversary exhibition Memorire Vives, with IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE

2016

• Presented The Work of Miyake Issey, an exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo
• Published ISSEY MIYAKE by Taschen
• Participated in MANUS×MACHINA Fashion in an age of Technology, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York

2017

• Participated in Items: Is Fashion Modern?, an exhibition featuring A-POC QUEEN and Black Turtleneck Top (1980) at Museum of Modern Art, New York

2018

• Participated in Japon – Japonismes. Objets inspire, 1867-2048, an exhibition featuring IKKO TANAKA ISSEY MIYAKE Nihon Buyo and Bokugi at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

2019

• Showed first HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE presentation at Centre Pompidou, Paris. Since then, has shown twice a year

2021

• Announced A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE brand
• Announced IM MEN brand

2022

• Organized "Christo and Jeanne-Claude 'L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped'" an exhibition at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT
• Issey Miyake (1938-2022)