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Issey Miyake: seamless innovator of avant-garde style
Issey Miyake: seamless innovator of avant-garde style
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.

Papua New Guinea prime minister Marape re-elected
Papua New Guinea prime minister Marape re-elected
by  AFP

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape was sworn in for a second term Tuesday, after an election hit by violence and alleged corruption that also ended a five-year absence of women in parliament.

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84
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.

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