Creative director Satoshi Kondo presented his Spring/Summer 2025 collection, "The Beauty of Paper," at Paris Fashion Week.

Tradition and innovation were undoubtedly reflected on the <a href="https://preview.lofficielusa.com/fashion/issey-miyake-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Issey Miyake</a> catwalk.&nbsp;Held in one&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Parc Floral de Paris pavilions, the <a href="https://preview.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/issey-miyake-mens-spring-summer-2025-fashion-show-review-images" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spring/Summer 2025</a> collection invited attendees to experience&nbsp;the lightness, texture, and clarity evoked by this omnipresent material that has accompanied humanity since ancient times.&nbsp;Likewise, paper was the starting point for Satoshi Kondo and his team to begin drawing the silhouettes presented.
Inspired by washi&mdash;traditional Japanese paper handmade from plant fibers&mdash;the show became a dance between the artisanal and the contemporary, and&nbsp;the garments celebrated the history of this ancestral and heritage practice. The pieces in the collection are light and textured, like a leaf floating in the air.

Photographs courtesy of Issey Miyake.

From the use of hemp fibers to reproduce ancient&nbsp;Kimiko&nbsp;to the play with transparency and volume in water-inspired fabrics, the proposal&nbsp;reflected a connection to the past but with a modern aesthetic. The&nbsp;Fold to Form&nbsp;technique, reminiscent of origami, and the pressed flower prints in the&nbsp;Pressed Flora series add a poetic touch. Kondo managed to make each of the garments convey a bit of Japanese history.
<a href="https://preview.lofficielusa.com/fashion/issey-miyake-pfw-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Issey Miyake</a>'s design philosophy has always centered on creating garments from a single piece of fabric, a revolutionary concept that sought to redefine the relationship between the human body, the fabric that covers it, and the space between the two. It is precisely this vision that has been respected and evolved in the proposal of Satoshi Kondo, who took over the creative direction of Issey Miyake in 2019.
Kondo has reinterpreted and taken this fundamental principle further, experimenting with new forms and materials that continue to challenge the perception of space between the body and the garment.

Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2025: Stories on Paper

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