Images are used to narrate the show as an initiation to the viewer who is about to begin this mystical journey.
![Top and above: view of gallery 2. Photo Masaya Yoshimura. Top and above: view of gallery 2. Photo Masaya Yoshimura.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_3842_Web_d_Gallery21.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![<i>Vegetable Face,</i> photo by Irving Penn, 1995. © The Irving Penn Foundation. <i>Vegetable Face,</i> photo by Irving Penn, 1995. © The Irving Penn Foundation.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_3149_web_VisualDialogue_VegetableFace1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
A sky that includes the rainbow, the twinkling stars and clouds carriers of fresh rain. Miyake is the earth. A solid fertile and living earth.
![View of the exhibition lobby. View of the exhibition lobby.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_6722_web_e_B1FLobby1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![View of the exhibition lobby. Photo Masaya Yoshimura. View of the exhibition lobby. Photo Masaya Yoshimura.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_3395_Web_a_1FLobby1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
Text by Aya Shigefuji with the collaboration of Oka Hiromoto
![View of gallery 1. Photo Masaya Yoshimura. View of gallery 1. Photo Masaya Yoshimura.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_3591_Web_b_Gallery11.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Left: Poster from the Spring/Summer Collection 1991. Right: Issey Miyake, Poster from the Spring/Summer Collection 1994. Photo Irving Penn. Poster design and typography Ikko Tanaka. Photo © The Irving Penn Foundation. Left: Poster from the Spring/Summer Collection 1991. Right: Issey Miyake, Poster from the Spring/Summer Collection 1994. Photo Irving Penn. Poster design and typography Ikko Tanaka. Photo © The Irving Penn Foundation.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_7763_Web_1991SS_Colombe_Scarf1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Original design created by Michael Crawford for the exhibition <i>Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue.</i> © 2010 Michael Crawford. Original design created by Michael Crawford for the exhibition <i>Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue.</i> © 2010 Michael Crawford.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_6216_Web_crawford-003_s1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Issey Miyake, Staircase Dress, New York, 1994. Platinum/palladium print. Photo Irving Penn. © The Irving Penn Foundation Issey Miyake, Staircase Dress, New York, 1994. Platinum/palladium print. Photo Irving Penn. © The Irving Penn Foundation](/content/dam/domusweb/en/design/2011/09/22/penn-miyake-visual-dialogue/big_361036_7942_Web_VisualDialogue_StaircaseDress1.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)