At the end of the Issey Miyake show today, there was a rare fashion moment as the audience stomped and cheered for designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae to take one more bow. It's been a while since Issey featured as a must-see on the crowded fashion calendar, but anyone who goes to these shows regularly knows they'll witness a special fusion of creativity, craftsmanship, intelligence, and plain old jaw drop. Well, maybe the special effects aren't always jaw-dropping, but they usually elicit a heartily spontaneous reaction, as happened today when a handful of models walked onto the catwalk with flat semicircular portfolios that they rapidly unfolded and converted into springy, concertina-pleated items of clothing. The helpful explanatory notes on each guest's seat described a process of "hand-pleating on the curve.