Launch of The New Project “TYPE-VIII Kenta Umemoto project”

Launch date: Sunday, 1 September 2024

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE, which creates a variety of “ABLE’s” by engaging with different professions and industries, introduces the “TYPE-VIII Kenta Umemoto project,” a project in collaboration with up-and-coming photographer Kenta Umemoto.

Umemoto is a Paris-based photographer. Based on his unique use of colour inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints and manga, he combines digital and manual techniques to create a unique method, masterfully utilizing light and shadow to pursue new photographic expression. In his representative work “FLŌRA,” he captures the forms of beautiful flowers full of vitality as if in the form of portrait photographs. His visual art, which seems to interweave the perspectives of photography and painting in the random beauty of natural objects, inspires new imagination in the viewer.

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE began this project after resonating with the creation via the interplay of intentionality and randomness in Umemoto’s work. The visuals from the new photographs of the “FLŌRA” series, which engages with flowers as a universal symbol of beauty, were reconstructed on dresses and jumpsuits using bold compositions. A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE’s unique Steam Stretch technique was used to create a patchwork-like arrangement of vertical and horizontal pleats on the items. Umemoto’s visuals were then transferred onto the items using a heat press process, expressing a sense of accidental beauty. The intricate textures, akin to floral veins, resonate with the body when worn, embodying lively beauty.

From Sunday, 1 September 2024 CUBE at ISSEY MIYAKE GINZA / 445 and CREATION SPACE at ISSEY MIYAKE SEMBA will boldly exhibit the “FLŌRA” series as well as the lively visual art of dresses and jumpsuits with striking contrast between light and shadow.

TYPE-VIII

Styles: Dress (1)
Colours: Purple-based, Blue-based, Red-based

Styles: Jumpsuit (1)
Colours: Navy-based, Orange-based

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