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iPhone Pocket All Sold Out!
The surprisingly funky iPhone Pocket, decried by many, is apparently sold out. It's a kind of a phone pouch.
(“Design should be leaving things a little bit less defined,” Yoshiyuki Miyamae)
In 1981, when Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, met Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer, the two connected on the power of functional dressing. Mr. Jobs, inspired by the uniforms Mr. Miyake designed for Sony employees, commissioned the designer to create similar attire for his team in Cupertino. The idea got him “booed off,” Mr. Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson.That didn’t stop the men from working together. Mr. Miyake created the black mock turtleneck Mr. Jobs adopted as part of his uniform, which he completed with blue Levi’s 501s and New Balance sneakers. The relaxed outfit shaped what the public came to expect from tech leaders’ style choices.
The two men’s companies never formally collaborated during their lifetimes. But now, four decades later, they have.
In a buzzed-about collaboration that has drawn a range of reactions, Apple and Issey Miyake joined forces to introduce an accessory inspired by Miyake’s “A Piece of Cloth” project, which uses modern technology to create garments that require the person wearing them to think creatively about how it might affect them and their lives. The result: a long fabric pouch for your phone that is called the iPhone Pocket.
In her excellent 1949 short story Sacred Martian Pig (Idris' Pig), science fiction author Margaret St. Clair describes a multipurpose Martian fashion item - the shari:
“The shari is an invariable part of the costume of Martian women of every class. A long, strong, slender net, as richly ornamented as the means of its owner will allow, it is used to carry parcels, tie up the hair, transport young children, and as an emergency brassiere. A Martian woman would feel naked without it and, by Terrestrial standards, she very nearly would be.
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