Yoshiyuki Miyamae for Issey Miyake: ‘The theme this season is microcosm’

September 30, 2016 By creative

Ahead of Paris Fashion Week (September 27 to October 5), Relaxnews caught up with designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae, creative director of Issey Miyake, whose spring/summer 2017 collection previewed September 30 at 10:30am. The cut of the pattern itself is straight-lined and simple, but using techniques such as 3D Steam Stretch and Baked Stretch gives the clothes a unique texture and three-dimensional form. What or who inspired this collection?

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Yoshiyuki Miyamae for Issey Miyake: ‘The theme this season is microcosm’

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Exclusive: India cracks down on illegal mica mines after expose reveals child deaths

September 30, 2016 By admin

By Nita Bhalla and Jatindra Dash NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Authorities in India have raided mica mines, arrested traders and begun steps to regulate the underground industry, local officials said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose revealed a cover-up of child deaths in illegal mica mining. A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market had resulted in at least seven children being killed since June, mining for the prized mineral that adds sparkle to makeup and car paint.

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