PLEATS PLEASE, ISSEY MIYAKE, Tokyo (manufacturer), Issey MIYAKE (designer), Yasumasa MORIMURA (designer)
Guest Artist Series, No. 1 Yasumasa Morimura, top
1996
Medium
polyester
Measurements
74.0 cm (centre back) 56.0 cm (sleeve length)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Ron Ramsey, 1998
© Miyake Design Studio
Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
From 1996 to 1998, Issey Miyake invited several contemporary artists to collaborate with him for his Pleats Please line, including photographer Yasumasa Morimura. Best known for his drag recreations of famous Western paintings, Morimura chose to position a photographic reproduction of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s La Source, 1856, across the torso of the pleated garment. Morimura has also imposed himself into the scene, wrapped in red mesh and embracing the image of the painting. His appropriation of Ingres’s renowned Neoclassical painting reflects the legacy of classical Greek sculpture in art and design.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Japan
Inscription
label, left seamline, woven in black on white polyester: PLEATS PLEASE / GUEST ARTIST / SERIES NO.1 / YASUMASA MORIMURA
Accession Number
1998.213
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest