Issey Miyake pleated his clothes backwards
Issey Miyake made his pleats the wrong way round. Normally a garment is pleated, then sewn. Miyake did the reverse: he cut and sewed each piece two-and-a-half to three times oversized, then pressed the finished garment flat between sheets of paper, and the polyester locked the pleats in for good. That became Pleats Please in 1993. He worked like an engineer, not a draughtsman, and later, with the textile engineer Dai Fujiwara, made A-POC: a single thread of cloth you cut into clothes yourself.