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Issey Miyake: seamless innovator of avant-garde style
Issey Miyake: seamless innovator of avant-garde style
World
by  AFP

Fashion innovator Issey Miyake shook up Parisian style with his highly wearable avant-garde designs, saying he was driven to create clothes that "bring beauty and joy" after witnessing the horrors of Hiroshima. I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy," Miyake wrote.

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84
World
by  AFP

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose global career spanned more than half a century, has died aged 84, an employee at his office in Tokyo told AFP on Tuesday. He established the Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo in 1970, and soon afterwards opened his first Paris boutique.

Two Palestinians killed, 40 wounded as Israel mounts West Bank raid
Two Palestinians killed, 40 wounded as Israel mounts West Bank raid
World
by  AFP

Two Palestinians, including a senior militant commander, were killed Tuesday as Israeli forces raided a house in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the army said. "The terrorist Ibrahim al-Nabulsi was killed in the city of Nablus," the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that "another terrorist who was staying in the house" also died.