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Material Dossier · 🇯🇵 Japan5 products analyzed
Issey Miyake
01Verdict
Safe to wear, but rough on the environment.
Best for Safe to wear; production isn't clean — donate when done.
C
Material grade
60/100
Typical, OK
6-axis quality average
B
Health Impact grade
76/100
Above-average
microplastic + skin + chemicals
02Breakdown
Antimony
40%
Common in this catalog
High microplastic
40%
Common in this catalog
PFAS likely
0%
Not flagged in our data
Formaldehyde
0%
Not flagged in our data
Plastic-free
60%
Most of the catalog
Label Confidence
5 products
100% high0% moderate0% low
Heuristic flags for vague language, undisclosed linings, organic/recycled claims without certification. How fabric labels can mislead
Data Coverage
65d old
Composition100%
Price100%
Image100%
Fabric weight (gsm)0%
Country of manufacture0%
Fit type0%
What % of Issey Miyake's 5 catalog products have each field. Empty bars mean we don't have the data, not that the brand hid it — these are gaps we're working to fill.
03Network
About Issey Miyake
1970 · Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake founded his studio in Tokyo in 1970 and spent fifty years treating textile as the design problem. Pleats Please (1993) heat-sets pleats into garment-cut polyester after sewing — the fabric remembers the form. A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth," 1997) weaves entire garments from a single tube of fabric, zero cut waste. The point was never the look; it was the engineering.
Known for
Pleats PleaseA-POCHeat-set polyesterOne-piece-cloth weaving
Why it's in our catalog: A rare fashion brand where the science behind the textile is the brand. Polyester at Miyake is doing something cotton physically can't do — useful for the "synthetic fiber, valid use case" half of the rubric.
By category
| Category | Products | Avg score | Grade | Health | Plastic-free | Price range | Top pick |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dresses | 2 | 52 | D | D40 | — | $806.67–1173.33 | GENERIC STRIPES (MACHINE PLEATS) |
| Shirts | 1 | 65 | C | A100 | 100% | $352 | DOUBLE FACE COTTON SHIRT |
| Sweaters & Hoodies | 1 | 65 | C | A100 | 100% | $256.67 | Black Turtleneck Top |
| Pants | 1 | 65 | C | A100 | 100% | $674.67 | FASTEN UP |
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Plastic-free picks from Issey Miyake
3 of 5 products in this brand are 0% synthetic. Top 3 by Health Impact.
DOUBLE FACE COTTON SHIRT
Cotton 100%
Quality CHealth AShirts
Black Turtleneck Top
Cotton 100%
Quality CHealth ASweaters
FASTEN UP
Cotton 100%
Quality CHealth APants
04Tradeoffs
Limited data: only 5 products analyzed. Scores may not be representative of the brand's full catalog.
What this score doesn't measure
Construction, fabric weight, finishing chemicals.Same composition can land in two very different garments. We rate the materials a brand uses; we don't lab-test individual SKUs.
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