When Makiko Minagawa first met Issey Miyake in 1970, it was on the premise of getting his advice on her planned move to London – but their interaction didn't quite go as planned. "We met and he said, 'forget London and come and work with me,'" she recalls, "so I did... and I've never looked back." Their relationship ever since has been mutually fortuitous: over the past four decades, Minagawa has worked as Miyake's textile designer, but when in 2000 she…
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