A black pleated full length dress, circa late 1990s, with an attached hood and stiff silver hem. Polyester. Done using the signature Miyake micro pleating. Labeled, "Issey Miyake." Size XS.
Hiroshima born graphic designer Issey Miyake trained in tailoring with Kenzo in mid 1960's Paris; fittingly, Miyake's clothing reflects both his background in meticulous construction and his affinity for technological ingenuity. While Japanese tattoo prints and sashiko coats mark the mid seventies era of his early career, Miyake's name evokes the image of highly geometric, origami-esque versatile garments. His signature pleating technique, producing an accordion-like shrunken form debuted in 1993 with the now iconic "Pleats Please" line, though his formalist patternmaking reinvented the ecological design movement in his later release of APOC "A Piece of Cloth" which posed one tube of jersey to warrant an entire outfit without a scrap of fabric waste. Experimental, often unproportional, individually-oriented: a Miyake garment often leaves the interpretation of his work up to the wearer themselves, offering a multipurpose approach to clothing the body. Although Miyake retired in 1999, his ready-to-wear line continues to reinvent approaches to textile, form, and function under the creative direction of the Miyake Team, a rotating collective of cutting-edge artists.

Bust 28.5 x Waist 24.5 x Hips 33 inches , Length: 50 inches

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