Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa: Mega Winter, Maxi Warmth
By Michelle Taylor
Photos by Giovanni Pucci

MILAN, Jan 15, 2004/ FW/ --- Naoki Takizawa is one of the few fashion designers who can make casual trendy, rouging manly, and put together abstract combinations that go beyond fashionable.

The presentation of the men’s Issey Miyake collection for autumn winter 2004 in Milan last Monday, showed that knitwear and the reworked Karma Sutra motif can in fact originate from the same roots.

He mixes baggy casual pants with tuxedo style jackets and long winter overcoats.

Double ended zips and large buttons, visible seams along with circular optical stitching and cutout scarves are all part of the Miyake wardrobe.

Knitwear is a combination of different stitching techniques, genial in its simplicity, appearing as if varied fabric had been pieced together and combined to form stripes and patterns.

Shirts were often collarless and the turtleneck sweater was also used as a valid alternative to traditional shirt and tie.

Takizawa’s choice palette is one of predominantly dark tones, but sprouts of colour come in flouro prints and paint blowing bursts on jackets and pants.

Sportive and innovative, Issey Miyake offers the possibility to the daring and instinctive man, or the outdoor type who likes to be prepared for all occasions in his finale; long, colourful down feathered puff jackets became in fact sleeping bags with a simple zip here and there. Mega winter, maxi warmth.

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa	Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa	Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa
Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa	Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa	Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa

Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa