Paris, the recognized mecca of world fashion, is in constant search of new talents. One of the undisputed discoveries of the 1980s is the Japanese stylist Issei Miyake. The book tells how a young man from Hiroshima, who miraculously survived the atomic bombing, became the most famous Asian designer who inscribed the "Japanese direction" in the history of world fashion. The inventor of new technologies and fabrics, a tireless innovator, Miyake, the head of an entire empire, never stopping, continues to create the fashion of the future.