05/02/2026
A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) was born inside the Issey Miyake universe as a radical proposition: one flat textile that only becomes form when activated by the body. First explored in the 1970s and formally presented in 1998 for the Spring/Summer 1999 collection under Naoki Takizawa, A-POC challenged traditional garment construction through seamless, adaptable clothing that moved beyond cutting and sewing, rethinking what a garment could be.
In the early 2000s the system entered production and began circulating in museums and cultural spaces as both fashion and design. In 2021, A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE translated this vision into a fully digital framework, using programmed knitting machines to encode shape, texture, color, and structure in a single continuous process, reducing waste while expanding creative possibility.
A-POC represents a new relationship between craft and technology, where innovation is not spectacle but method: a quiet revolution in how garments are conceived, produced, and lived, bridging body, machine, and imagination.
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