Early 1990s Issey Miyake Graphic Gray & White Elaborately Pleated Midi Skirt designer-ceil-chapman Item# DD2931

Item# DD2931

This would have been originally intended to be worn as lingerie piece

By the late seventies and early eighties

The inner silk chiffon and silk skirt hugs the body while the top chiffon layer has yards and yards of silk that flow from the waist and into an expansive skirt with a series of trumpet pleats

Early 1990s Issey Miyake Graphic Gray & White Elaborately Pleated Midi Skirt designer-ceil-chapman Item# DD2931The pleating technique that Issey Miyake was to become famous for was begun in pieces produced during the 1980s. They soon became his signature and an integral part of his brand. Part of the incentive behind using pleats in this manner was to give his clothes a sense of ease. He wanted his clothing to have freedom in the way that they moved and for him it was always about the shape of the body rather then the shape of the clothes. That is why the best