Rare pleated print dress by Issey Miyake for Pleats Please in collaboration with Yasumasa Morimura to launch the Guest Artist Series No.1 for his fall/winter 1996-1997 collection. This collectable collab has been showcased at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, and the RISD Museum, to name a few.

Morimura's art is based on an egocentric reimagining of iconic paintings and photographs from art history and celebrity culture, considered to be a contemporary appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. For his collaboration with Issey Miyake, Morimura placed himself within the neoclassical world of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' 1856 painting, La Source. Instead of replacing the central figure with his own image, Morimura twined an inverted image of himself wrapped in red mesh around the painting's subject, a statuesque nude. The final print is a complicated layering of art historical and contemporary imagery that touches on a variety of constructs: male and female, east and west, clothed and nude. (via FIDM and artnet) Check out an overview of the Guest Artist Series .

This dress is an iconic Pleats Please column dress silhouette with signature pleated fabric that expands to fit with a pullover style funnel mock turtleneck opening. Mitre seamed sleeves accentuated the angular cut around the body. We would wear with a black Maison Margiela Tabi boot, geometric drop earrings, and our hair pulled back into a stick-straight pony artfully wrapped with a red mesh net. Or we might just decide to frame this piece and call it a day. Ash grey, iron grey, silver grey, red, neon orange.

-Condition: Excellent / Unworn Condition
(original tags attached; original owner never work the piece and bought it to appreciate)
*Few small creases on sleeves due to storage; not noticeable.
-Estimated Size: X-Large (marked as size 5)
-Material: 100% Polyester
-Made In Japan

Measurements
-Bust: 28" (expands to 38")
-Waist: 25" (expands to 35")
-Hip: 25" (expands to 35")
-Sweep: 25" (expands to 35")
-Length (Center Front): 53.5"
-Shoulder-to-Shoulder: 19" (expands to 24")
-Sleeve Length: 23"