Homme Plissé Issey Miyake
pleated menswear
Avant Designer · Japan
Cheaper, worse made
Quality
8/10
Price
$$$
Design
9 of 10
Reputation
8 of 10
Balanced
Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake at a glance
Quality
Price
$$$$+Designer labels average 8.5
Value
5.6Better value than 35% of labels
Typical US prices
knitwear $625, outerwear $750-925, tops $425-440
Issey Miyake is a Japanese avant designer label best known for technical pleated RTW — quality 8.5/10, balanced across the style spectra.
Scores
Design
10 of 10
Reputation
9 of 10
Style
Quality 8.5 — 6th of 20 avant-garde designer brands (average 8.0). Value 5.6 — joint 236th of 370 for quality against price; not on the Value Frontier.
Scores last reviewed July 8, 2026 · Sources: Issey Miyake official site (opens in a new tab), wsls.com (opens in a new tab), designscene.net (opens in a new tab) · How we score
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