WHY STEVE JOBS WORE BLACK TURTLE NECKS: THE ISSEY MIYAKE FASHION CONNECTION!
By Isy Coker
Not only was he a visionary, a lover of art Steve Jobs also loved fashion and now we know why he wore black turtle neck jerseys designed by guess who? Issey Miyake! Who also happens to be a favorite designer of ours! Did you know Steve Jobs actually owned over a hundred of the black turtle necks? No kidding here is how it was reported
From Issacson's book, as reported by Gawker:
On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. "I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple," Jobs recalled. Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest.
So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, "I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea." In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them." Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. "That's what I wear," he said. "I have enough to last for the rest of my life."
This is certainly a revelation from his biography, there will be more revealed I am sure about that when the book finally comes out on OCT 24
Not only was he a visionary, a lover of art Steve Jobs also loved fashion and now we know why he wore black turtle neck jerseys designed by guess who? Issey Miyake! Who also happens to be a favorite designer of ours! Did you know Steve Jobs actually owned over a hundred of the black turtle necks? No kidding here is how it was reported
From Issacson's book, as reported by Gawker:
On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. "I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple," Jobs recalled. Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest.
So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, "I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea." In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them." Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. "That's what I wear," he said. "I have enough to last for the rest of my life."
This is certainly a revelation from his biography, there will be more revealed I am sure about that when the book finally comes out on OCT 24
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