The art of collaboration

Select images from the Penn/Miyake collaboration featured in the exhibit, “Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue”, at 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo. Interesting to note, the two creative forces met on the set of a Vogue shoot in 1983, and subsequently began their 13-year journey of collaboration.  Though Miyake never attended any of Penn’s shoots and Penn never attended a Miyake runway show, a mutual aesthetic respect led to an unspoken trust in Penn’s extraordinary interpretations. In the end, a truly revered gift to both fashion and photography history… (designboom)