Dress

Issey Miyake|Yasumasa Morimura

fall/winter 1996–97 · polyester · Costume Institute

Issey Miyake launched his Pleats Please line in 1993. To create the line, he used a patented process called "garment pleating" that involves pleating clothes rather than textiles. The process entails constructing garments at two or three times their intended size, then precisely folding, ironing, and lacing the sewn ensembles, sandwiched between paper, into a heat press. The finished garments are permanently pleated and can be washed and dried without losing shape. Miyake launched the Pleats Please Guest Artist series in 1996 with contemporary Japanese photographer Yasumasa Morimura. This dress features a collage by Morimura of the artist wearing red mesh and a nude female figure from the Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painting "La Source" (1856).

Artist

Issey Miyake|Yasumasa Morimura

Date

fall/winter 1996–97

Medium

polyester

Culture

Japanese

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2015