Somehow I Never Knew Pleats Please Made Handbags?

Or how a chance Tokyo discovery turned into a newfound obsession.

Somehow despite going on many Issey Miyake press appointments over the years for work, my brain did not register that Pleats Please made bags. I remember the countless Bao Bao totes and clutches — those geometric carryalls that are beloved equally by Gen Z kids on TikTok and old Chinese ladies alike. But seeing those signature heat molded pleats in satc…