A-POC MAKING; YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT YET, BUT AT ISSEY MIYAKE, CREATIVE DIRECTOR DAI FUJIWARA IS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF FASHION.(A Piece of Cloth technology)

Daily News Record, May, 2007 by Gavenas, Marilise

Byline: Marilise Gavenas

PARIS - Pretty much everybody in the contemporary art world raves about Dai Fujiwara, the 39-year-old who took over as creative director of Issey Miyake last year. Give them half a chance and they will talk your ear off explaining why his work is the most historically important, the most breathtakingly visionary, the most technically astounding thing to happen to fashion since the invention of the jacquard loom back at the beginning of the 19th century. If your conversation happens to be with someone who is either Japanese or working in the field of industrial design, prepare yourself to hear the word "genius" worked into a sentence more times than you ever guessed possible. If your conversation happens to be with someone who is both...

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