Vacuum cleaner inspires Issey Miyake

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

PARIS (AFP) — The gaping mouths of giant vacuum cleaner tubes dangling menacingly over the runway at the Issey Miyake show were a clue to the inspiration behind the collection for summer 2008 which designer Dai Fujiawa called "Wind".

To help him he called on James Dyson, who harnessed cyclone technology to invent a revolutionary vacuum cleaner with constant suction.

The Issey Mikaye team stripped down one of Dyson's cleaners into its many component parts and copied them to create witty clothing which interacted with wind.

Nozzles, rubber connecting rings and the extendable tube were all adapted into sleeves, belts or pockets on all manner of quirky windcheaters, anoraks and hooded nylon and PVC rainwear.

Overhead gantries agitated the tubes over the...