With the collection to which this piece belongs, Miyake presents, for the first time, a technique he had been developing since 1989.
In 1993, he finally launched ‘Pleats Please’, in which he applied his particular technique of pleating on polyester, developed from his inspiration in ‘Delphos de Fortuny’. These garments, which are made on a scale of three times their size and then pleated with heat between two pieces of paper, were created with the intention of being easy to care for, transport and wear, providing great movement.
This dress, along with the McQueen, with which it shares a room, was also part of the exhibition ‘Vogue: Like a Painting’ at the Franz Mayer Museum of Art and Design in Mexico City, where it could be seen from 12 July to 15 September 2019.
One of the first generation of Japanese to arrive in Paris, Issey Miyake began his professional career at Givenchy before returning to Tokyo in 1970 and founding his own label. He focused mainly on the study of the body, fabrics and the inherent correlation created by wearing a garment, with projects such as APOC (A Piece of Cloth), a system for creating garments with a single piece of fabric.
