Mathematician, Issey Miyake's Contributions In The Fashion Industry

The 1930’s to 1950’s was called the Golden Age for Hollywood. The curvier look was back and clothing was form fitting again. People were all about curves and achieving the perfect hourglass figure with a slim waist, large breasts, and hips. Bodices, belts, and of the shoulder blouses emphasized the body’s curves and gave the appearance of a slimmer waist. Shoulder pads and wide lapels are were always worn by women and gave the illusion of more curves. Madeleine Vionnet, a designer from Paris, created the bias cut where clothing was cut diagonally and clung to a woman’s curves which women preferred to wear over the traditionally cut dresses. In the 1940’s, World War II had a major effect on women’s fashion. Resources had to be limited so dresses

Mathematician, Issey Miyake, was widely known for his contributions in fashion with his experiments on surfaces and materials with clothing and presented his work during the Paris Fashion Week. Miyake was best known for his unique way of using fabrics. Instead of pressing fabrics before cutting them in the usual manner, he cut and assembled the clothing so they were bigger than intended. Then he pressed and oversewed the garment and had it pressed between two sheets of paper. Miyake also introduced the idea of the Piece-Of-Cloth (A-POC) which involved having clothing being made from a single piece of cloth that would still be able to cover the entire body and didn’t waste any material (Kawamura 1). This technique took a great deal of understanding in mathematics and how curvatures, assemblies, shapes, and geometrical surfaces worked. With all the interesting way to cut the garment using this method, dresses could appear to look as if they were in two or three

Fashion is defined by a constant change of expressing the way we wish to look and this is affected by many things including social, cultural, commercial, religious, and political changes in society as well as the influence from fashion designers. The designers are to a degree the ones who choose what look and style they want to present and then the people decide whether or not they want to bring it in style. However, if one wants to bring a certain look into style they must consider mathematical concepts such as curves, surfaces, clothing assemblages, form, movement, shapes, and practicality if they wish their trend to be a