Dress
Issey Miyake
ca. 1993 · 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 air dried without losing shape. This black and white dress, which forms a rectangle when flat, represents Miyake's interest in sculptural form and the two-dimensionality of textiles.
- Artist
- Issey Miyake
- Date
- ca. 1993
- Medium
- polyester
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of the Friedman Family, in memory of Mildred S. Friedman, 2015
