Apple × Issey Miyake Just Launched the Most Unexpected Accessory of 2025

By Zenia Pearl V. Nicolas

The Apple × Issey Miyake Accessory of 2025 ‘iPhone Pocket’ combines fabric architecture with everyday utility. Image courtesy: the Mac Observer

Apple × Issey Miyake Just Launched the Most Unexpected Accessory of 2025 When Apple quietly partnered with Issey Miyake this November to launch the sculptural iPhone Pocket, it felt like two worlds, tech and avant-garde fashion finally acknowledging how naturally they intersect. The piece debuts November 14, positioned not as a gadget add-on, but as an object of everyday design (Le Monde).

A Pocket Designed for the Age of Constant Carry

According to Le Monde, the accessory was developed inside Miyake’s Reality Lab—the studio responsible for the house’s most experimental work. Their approach was simple: if the phone has become part of the body, then its carrier should behave like clothing, not hardware.

The Pocket draws from Miyake’s signature geometric folds, but holds the iPhone like architecture—structured, grounded, and quietly functional. It treats the device as a silhouette, not an interruption.

Why This Collaboration Works

Both brands value reduction, clarity and presence. Apple strips design to its purest form; Miyake searches for movement and purpose. Together, they’ve created a piece that looks less like a tech accessory and more like a wearable intention.

The Apple × Issey Miyake “iPhone Pocket” shown in textured brown pleated fabric, designed to carry the device like a wearable object. Image courtesy of Issey Miyake / Apple. Image Courtesy: Apple Newsroom 2025

Rather than leaning into futuristic theatrics, the collaboration offers something more human: technology that blends into daily life instead of dominating it.

A Small Object With a Larger Message

Wearable tech has long tried to be loud—screens, lights, sensors. Issey Miyake and Apple argue the opposite: 

the future is quiet, tactile, and seamlessly personal.

It’s a reminder that innovation doesn’t always arrive in neon. 

Sometimes it arrives in fabric.

Reference

Le Monde. (2025, November 12). Where tech meets fashion with Apple and Miyake. Retrieved from https://www.lemonde.fr/en/lifestyle/article/2025/11/12/where-tech-meets-fashion-with-apple-and-miyake_6747368_37.html