Have You Read Issey Miyake's NY Times Op-Ed Piece?
by Nana at July 15, 2009, 12:30 PM
The Japanese designer known for his imaginative and surrealist modern pieces opened up about the remaining effects of witnessing the Hiroshima bomb drop as a 7 year old child. "When I close my eyes," he wrote, in a plea for President Obama to make good on his desire to see a world without nuclear weapons, "I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape -- I remember it all. Within three years, my mother died from radiation exposure." Miyake says he never wanted to be defined as the "the designer who survived the atomic bomb" and has avoided questions about his Hiroshima hometown as a result, but has now come clean in an effort to make sure no other kid or adult has to see or experience what he did on August 6, 1945.
Props to Miyake for sharing his very personal story.
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