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Dress

Designer Yohji Yamamoto Japanese
spring/summer 1993
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(Right figure) What could once only have seemed to be Miss Havisham's ruined raiment is the pointedly distressed version of a sweater elongated and eviscerated by Yamamoto. As it balances a clothing standard and its disarray, so the "deconstructed" sweater-dress equivocates among the seasons and could justly serve in any season. (Shown with 1994.9.3 by Jean Paul Gaultier.)

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Designer: Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943)
  • Date: spring/summer 1993
  • Culture: Japanese
  • Medium: cotton
  • Credit Line: Gift of Richard Martin, 1993
  • Object Number: 1993.96
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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