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.

Pleats Please Issey Miyake, celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, has become exactly that—a line of amorphous, finely pleated, colorful garments that offer intergenerational appeal to ...

Like Sweatpants, But Dressy: The Pandemic Rise of Issey Miyake Pleats Please. For nearly three decades, the Japanese line of packable, washable, pleated clothing has had an ardent following.

Pleats Please officially launched in 1993, several years after the idea first began percolating in Issey Miyake’s mind. The Hiroshima-born designer began dreaming up new concepts in 1989, after ...

Pleats Please, the most cultish of Issey Miyake’s ranges, has been enjoying a renewed limelight of late. Debuting way back in 1993 (though the trademark technique was born four years earlier ...

Pleats have been around for decades but micro-pleating, or plissé, is having a reboot as designers take inspiration for spring from Issey Miyake’s innovative Pleats Please line of the 1990s ...

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 ...

The Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake is a pioneer when it comes to pleats. In 1993, his popular Pleats Please collection democratized the accordion folds for every everyday wear with a heat ...