The real beginning of the fashion-technology love affair and its legacy lies with Issey Miyake, who died last week.
Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer.
The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died on Aug. 5 at age 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways — the first foreign designer to show at Paris Fashion Week (in April 1974), among the first designers to collaborate with artists and a proponent of “comfort dressing” long before the term ever existed. But it was his understanding and appreciation of technology and how it could be harnessed to an aesthetic point of
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