Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, whose global career spanned more than half a century, has died at the age of 84. Miyake was best known for his style of blending technology and fashion and his best-known fragrance product L'eau d'Issey.

"He died on the evening of August 5," an employee at Miyake's office told AFP over the telephone, declining to be named and without giving further details of his death.