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JUNYA WATANABE, COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house), Junya WATANABE (designer)
Dress
 2002
spring-summer 2003

Medium
cotton, metal (fastening), plastic (fastenings), elastic, rubber

Measurements
104.0 cm (centre back) 48.5 cm (waist, flat)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2017
© Comme des Garçons

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Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International

 

About this work

The print on this dress resembles toile de Jouy, a printed fabric popular in late eighteenth-century France, typically depicting idyllic or pastoral scenes based on engravings. In keeping with this imagery, the dress appears light and pretty. However, Watanabe’s use of webbing to secure a parachute-style backpack and draw up the front introduces a distinctly contemporary relevance.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Japan

Inscription
label, centre back neckline, printed in ink on white cotton: JUNYA WATANABE / COMME des GARCONS / M

Accession Number
2017.154

Department
International Fashion and Textiles

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