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The “TYPE-II Tatsuo Miyajima project” is in collaboration with contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima.

Miyajima, who is known worldwide as a contemporary artist, creates art works that express time and life with digital numbers from 0 to 9 based on three concepts: “Keep Changing,” “Connect with Everything,” and “Continue Forever.”

The new item released this time is a jacket featuring digital numbers printed in vivid colors, inspired by Miyajima’s LED artworks.

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This jacket reconstructs Miyajima’s digital numbers through application of an advanced hand-printing technique by Kyoto craftsmen. The jacket’s parts and the digital numbers pattern are designed in a single piece of cloth. Fabric that bonds together different materials undergoes several rounds of screen printing and unique processing to create an uneven pattern and place the colors. The digital numbers have vivid pink-based, yellow-based, and blue-based colors, symbolizing Miyajima’s LED artworks that glow in the dark. As this is a limited-quantity product, the edition number is woven on the tag of each item.

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The main visual is the dynamic physical appearance of the dancer Tomohiko Tsujimoto which was photographed by Tamaki Yoshida. When the negative films were arranged one by one along a timeline and viewed as a whole, unexpected new looks were created. TYPE-II-004 embodies the beauty that life and time, as well as time and space, accidentally create in a way that resonates with Miyajima’s three concepts of “Keep Changing,” “Connect with Everything,” and “Continue Forever.”

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE participated in the exhibition "Visionaries: Making Another Perspective ” which is scheduled to be held at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art from Thursday, March 9, 2023. The multicolored jacket created in conjunction with this exhibition was sold only at A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE / KYOTO and ISSEY MIYAKE GINZA / 442.