Issey Miyake will show the men's season of IM Men in Paris in January (#1685905)

The house of Issey Miyake has revealed its plans to present a debut show of its IM Men collection during the upcoming French menswear season in January in Paris.

“We are pleased to inform you that starting with the upcoming Paris Men's Fashion Week, Fall Winter 2025/26 season in January 2025, we will present the IM Men collection,” reads a joint statement from Midori Kitamura and Hiroki Kaito, respectively. the president and CEO of Miyake.

Launched in 2020, under the direction of founder Issey Miyake, IM Men creates clothing designed to reflect the practice of integrating design and engineering.

The collection will be presented in Paris on Thursday, January 23, the third day of the six-day Parisian menswear season that ends on Sunday, January 26. The collection will be streamed live on the brand's official website and IM Men's Instagram account.

Miyake Design Studio's creative team is led by a triumvirate of Sen Kawahara and Yuki Itakura, both responsible for design/engineering, and Nobutaka Kobayashi, in charge of textile design/engineering. The three designers have been with the house for more than a decade.

“Together, they set out to redefine clothing with a focus on both form and construction, developing and advancing clothing construction derived from the philosophy of a piece of cloth“, the house stressed. In one reference, the founder's revelation that he had been inspired by designer Madeleine Vionnet's use of geometric calculations and “a single beautiful piece of fabric.”

Last year, the house opened the first IM Men pop-up store in London to test the waters, selling cutting-edge ideas like three-dimensional constructions, seamless fabrics and unexpected materials.

Although founded in Tokyo, the Miyake house has presented its men's and women's shows in Paris since the seventies in various versions and with different collection titles. The Homme Plissé Issey Miyake collection was first presented in Paris in 2019 and, over the past five years, has become a celebrated division of the Japanese brand.

“We have made new plans for (the Homme Plissé Issey Miyake collection) as it progresses and continues to evolve. We will share more information with you in the spring of next year,” the two executives warned.

Famous for his technology-driven clothing, Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and was living in the city when it was hit by an atomic bomb in August 1945. He died, after becoming a true fashion legend, at the age of 84. , in August 2022. .