Europe 1 with AFP 10:48 a.m., August 09, 2022

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose career spanned more than half a century, died at the age of 84, an employee at his office in Tokyo told AFP on Tuesday. 

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose career spanned more than half a century, died at the age of 84, an employee at his office in Tokyo told AFP on Tuesday.

"He died on the evening of August 5," she said over the phone, declining to be named and without giving further details of his death.