dress
dress
Designer
Creation date
1990s
Materials
cotton
Dimensions
L: 57 7/8 in. (back neck to hem)
Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Dorit Paul, Dee Garrett, Catie Lichtenauer, Kay Koch and Liz Kraft Meek
Accession number
2009.296
Collection
Not Currently On View
This dress is a brilliant example of how Miyake transformed simple lengths of fabric to create a visually complex dress. The dress was constructed by gathering and draping bias-cut strips of cotton and crisscrossing them around the front and back of the bodice. Wider strips attached to the waistline cascade down the dress to form a long, open handkerchief-like skirt.
(Junnaa & Thomi Wroblewski Ltd., London, England); puchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2009.
