Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1938. He studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo and graduated in 1965. He went straight to Paris after his studies, where he trained at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (French regulator of Haute Couture fashion houses) before taking apprenticeships with Givenchy and Guy Laroche. Issey Miyake founded the Miyake Design Studio in 1970, which was seen as an experimental laboratory for Japanese fashion.