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Coral Pleated Synthetic Triangular Collar Element

1990s · 1990s · Japanese

Production

artisan-craft

Material

pleated synthetic fiber

Culture

Japanese

Movement

Japanese avant-garde fashion · Grunge

Influences

Issey Miyake pleating techniques · origami folding principles

This triangular garment element features precise accordion pleating in a warm coral-peach synthetic fabric. The pleats run vertically from the pointed apex down to the scalloped lower edge, creating a rigid architectural form that maintains its geometric shape. The construction demonstrates advanced pleating techniques, likely heat-set into the synthetic fibers to create permanent memory. The piece appears to be a collar, cape, or shoulder element designed to create dramatic angular silhouette enhancement. The craftsmanship reflects Japanese expertise in textile manipulation and geometric fashion construction, characteristic of experimental 1990s design that emphasized structural innovation over traditional garment forms.

top/t-shirt/sweatshirtloose fithip length

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Coral Pleated Synthetic Triangular Collar Element

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Charcoal Gray Pleated Polyester Wrap Dress

Movement·Japanese avant-garde fashionTechnique·pleating

LINEAGE10 years · cross-category→ directed

Lineage: “Japanese furoshiki wrapping”

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These pieces reveal how Issey Miyake's pleating revolution rippled through Japanese fashion in two directions: the coral chevron collar distills his geometric obsession into pure ornament, while the charcoal wrap dress extends it into wearable architecture. Both garments treat pleating not as decoration but as structural DNA—the collar's sharp triangular folds create sculptural drama that echoes the dress's enveloping, origami-like silhouette.

Coral Pleated Synthetic Triangular Collar Element

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Bright Purple Pleated Silk Tent Cocktail Dress

Influences·Issey Miyake pleating techniquesTechnique·pleating

SHARED30 years · cross-culture · cross-category

The coral collar's knife-sharp pleats and architectural geometry echo the theatrical cascade of the purple tent dress, both mining the same vein of pleating as pure sculptural expression. Thirty years separate them, but they share Miyake's revolutionary understanding that fabric manipulation could create form without seams—the collar reads like a distilled fragment of the dress's enveloping drama.

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