Issey Miyake imagines clothes with a will of their own at Paris Fashion Week

Issey Miyake imagines clothes with a will of their own at Paris Fashion Week

Issey Miyake has staged its spring 2026 show at Paris Fashion Week at the Centre Pompidou. The display opened with crisp monochrome shirts and high-waisted trousers, shoulders drawn upward into a compact, shrugging line.

Breath Made Visible: The Sentience of Cloth – Issey Miyake

Dear Shaded Viewers, The ISSEY MIYAKE Spring Summer 2026 show at Centre Pompidou unfolded as a living tapestry—garments animated, themes unfurling as acts in a poetic ballet where the body became both subject and canvas. This season’s collection embarked from the surreal hypothesis: what if garments possessed self-awareness? The result was a palpable sense of intention within every silhouette, as if clothing itself reacted and interacted with th…