Nearly 30 years old, Pleats Please Issey Miyake was catching on with a new generation before the pandemic. Then, the label became the sweatpants of choice for those in the know.

The success of Pleats Please in the global market, not as fashion items but as material products, had been preceded by a journey of 20 or so years by the Miyake Design Studio (including, of course ...

At the Mohawk General Store in the trendy Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, groups of women in their 20s and 30s congregate around a rack of Issey Miyake Pleats Please pieces at the front ...