Into the Deep

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has been revolutionizing the industry with his single-minded vision since the 1970s. Now, after a major retrospective of his work at the National Art Center, in Tokyo, and the publication of a career-spanning Taschen book, he launches a new fragrance this month, Issey Miyake L'Eau d'lssey Pure, which embodies the true essence of his ideology. "My touchstone started out being, and is still, exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth," Miyake says. Drawn from a singular inspiration—one drop of water-a conical bottle forms an clon8alcd droplet that contains the scent. With a fresh floral bouquet of the valley, damask rose, and jasmine, underscored by warm amber notes, the fragrance evokes a golden sea of freshness. ($108 for 3 oz.; bloomingdales.com)

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SUNHEE GRINNELL