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Article: HaaT stuff.(new collection by Makiko Minagawa)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- June 29, 2004
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Byline: Daniela Gilbert
NEW YORK -- Trend-shy designer Issey Miyake believes an eclectic collection by Makiko Minagawa, his former textile designer, can make it -- even as ladylike glamour stages a fashion comeback.
Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus agree.
HaaT, which bowed under Miyake's umbrella of collections in fall 2001, is the brainchild of Minagawa, who worked alongside Miyake for more than 30 years. Minagawa helped mold the designer's Pleats Please line in 1993, which featured textiles pleated through a special process. While Minagawa serves as HaaT's creative director and textile designer, Hiroaki Ohya, who has worked in the Miyake ...