The new Please watch by British industrial designer Jasper Morrison for fashion brand Issey Miyake is now available and funkier than ever.
Jasper Morrison’s celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Issey Miyake’s seminal Pleats Please fashion collection. “The Please watch takes its inspiration from the great Irving Penn 1994 photograph of Miyake’s equally great Pleats Please collection. I visited the 21_21 Design Sight exhibition of Penn’s photos for Miyake and was overwhelmed by how Penn managed to capture the spirit of Miyake’s clothes in his photos. And I decided then and there to do my best to capture some of that spirit for this new watch”, says Jasper Morrison.
[infobox bg=”darkgray” color=”black” opacity=”on” subtitle=”Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, and graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School, London (1979-82 BA (Des.)) and The Royal College of Art for Postgraduate studies (1982-85 MA (Des.) RCA). In 1984 he studied at Berlins HdK on a Scholarship. In 1986 he set up an Office for Design in London. Today Jasper Morrison Ltd. consists of three design offices, a main office in London and two branch offices: one in Paris (opened 2002) and one in Tokyo (opened 2007). Services offered by Jasper Morrison Ltd. are wide ranging, from furniture to tableware and kitchen products and lighting, electronics and appliance design, designs for public space and more recently watches, clocks & shoes. In 2005, founding of Super Normal with Naoto Fukasawa. In June 2006, first Super Normal exhibition in Tokyo. In 2009 opening of the Jasper Morrison Limited Shop in London and in 2011 the launch of a webshop www.jaspermorrison.com/shop/ “]About Jasper Morrison[/infobox]
Specs:
Quartz
Material: SS + Hairline case, Mineral glass, Urethane band lime
Size: Diameter 40mm / Thickness 12.8mm
Water resistance: 5atm
5 Bar/50 metres/5 Atmospheres/164 Feet
Everyday use including recreational swimming but not water sports and diving.
