Japanese Fashion Designers (the work and influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo) is a nice book especially for the price. One MAJOR flaw is that each designer get a section of their own with a photo of the designer at the beginning of the chapeter, well Issey Miyake's is wrong. It's not a picture of Issey Miyake, but of Naoki Takizawa (a former Issey Miyake designer). It's sad that the writer/editor did NOT notice this. How you can NOT tell that the photo is not of Issey Miyake? Very idiotic!
Outside of that the book is pretty good with info on newer designers. One of my personal favorites being Tao Kurihara (sadly she does not have her own line, Tao, anymore. It also has wonderful sections on the Japanese influence on Dutch and Belgian designers.
I do recommend the book, but that mislabeled photo is a BIG BIG screw up!!!!