It’s fashion week again and almost everyone is looking for what will be the next big trend for next year and with all the talks about eco-friendly clothes and finding individualism in a global market. I decided it’s right time to blog about Issey Miyake’s A-POC (a piece of clothing) design concept.
A-POC, a unique idea of Miyake in manufacturing clothes is now goes beyond the confines of fashion. It’s an industrial weaving machine programmed by a computer that creates continuous tubes of fabric within which lie both shape and pattern. The customers can cut exactly to the length they want. The concept is a revolutionary way of making clothes, accessories or even lately furniture. A-POC process reduces any leftover fabric that would have been eventually garbage that filling up our landfills. Also it lets the costumer to have a role in the final design of the final outcome.
Now retired from fashion Miyake is now concentrating on further developing the A-POC technology with the help of textile expert Dai Fujiwara. Together they encourage others to find new applications for A-POC. Since any material that can be turned into a fiber can be use in A-POC process the possibilities for this technology is endless. Their team already developed a series of colourful chairs and sofas and a resin-linen blend that found to be as strong as steel.
(photo from the book A-Poc Making: Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara by Issey Miyake).
Miyake now offer a product called “Gemini”to consumers, co-designed by the London-based furniture maker/architect Ron Arad. Gemini is a streamlined, body-cushioning seat pillow, made of A-POC fabric, which morphs into an elegant, body-hugging jacket.
Miyake and Arad also teamed up to produced the “Ripple Chair” 
Started in Fall/Winter 2007 collection, A-POC technology was implemented as a design solution for three Issey Miyake brands which will be called A-POC INSIDE. Here's Issey Miyake"s Spring/Summer 2008
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A-POC, a unique idea of Miyake in manufacturing clothes is now goes beyond the confines of fashion. It’s an industrial weaving machine programmed by a computer that creates continuous tubes of fabric within which lie both shape and pattern. The customers can cut exactly to the length they want. The concept is a revolutionary way of making clothes, accessories or even lately furniture. A-POC process reduces any leftover fabric that would have been eventually garbage that filling up our landfills. Also it lets the costumer to have a role in the final design of the final outcome.
Now retired from fashion Miyake is now concentrating on further developing the A-POC technology with the help of textile expert Dai Fujiwara. Together they encourage others to find new applications for A-POC. Since any material that can be turned into a fiber can be use in A-POC process the possibilities for this technology is endless. Their team already developed a series of colourful chairs and sofas and a resin-linen blend that found to be as strong as steel.
(photo from the book A-Poc Making: Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara by Issey Miyake). Miyake now offer a product called “Gemini”to consumers, co-designed by the London-based furniture maker/architect Ron Arad. Gemini is a streamlined, body-cushioning seat pillow, made of A-POC fabric, which morphs into an elegant, body-hugging jacket.
Miyake and Arad also teamed up to produced the “Ripple Chair”
Fujiwara Dai and Miyake Issey's A-POC Queen Textile. 1997. Cotton, nylon, and polyurethane, Dimensions variable. Manufactured by Issey Miyake, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Gift of Miyake Design Studio. Composite image by Pascal Roulin
Here's A-POC's ‘Baguette’ collection.
Started in Fall/Winter 2007 collection, A-POC technology was implemented as a design solution for three Issey Miyake brands which will be called A-POC INSIDE. Here's Issey Miyake"s Spring/Summer 2008
Here's the video of the show.
A-POC inside video
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