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Issey Miyake, designer

Pleats Please Guest Artist Series, no. 1, 1997

Description

Maker

  • Yasumasa Morimura, b. 1951, Japanese
  • Issey Miyake, b. 1938, Japanese, designer

Title

Pleats Please Guest Artist Series, no. 1

Year

1997

Medium

Heat-set pleated and printed polyester machine knit

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • polyester

Techniques

  • printing,
  • printed,
  • plain weave,
  • pleating

Dimensions

Center back length: 137.8 cm (54 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

"Pleats Please, Issey Miyake" and "Pleats Please, Guest Artist Series No. 1, Yasumasa Morimura"

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Gift of the artist

Object Number

1997.25

About

In this first design for the Pleats Please Guest Artist series (1996–1998), fashion designer Issey Miyake collaborated with photographer and video artist Yasumasa Morimura to create a garment that encourages an “interactive relationship between art and the person who admires it.” Morimura’s collage image on the dress front exemplifies his selfdescribed practice of “wearing Western art history” and pointedly answers Miyake’s call. Shrouded in red mesh, he inverts a self-portrait in a devotional pose at the feet of a nude woman sampled from Ingres’s Neoclassical painting La Source (1856). Further complicated by the expanding pleats and
the wearer’s moving body, this complex image questions binary divisions such as those between self and other, male and female, East and West.

"Pleats Please, Issey Miyake" and "Pleats Please, Guest Artist Series No. 1, Yasumasa Morimura"

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Term Limits

November 8, 2005 - February 5, 2006

Drawn from the Collection

October 7, 1998 - January 17, 1999

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Pleats Please Guest Artist Series, no. 1 with the accession number of 1997.25. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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