Textile Design: A Solar Experience.Flying Saucer flying saucer: see unidentified flying objects. dress, Japan, 1994. Designed by Issey Mikaye, born 1938. Label: Issey Mikaye. Heat-set polyester polyester, synthetic fiber, produced by the polymerization of the product formed when an alcohol and organic acid react. The outstanding characteristic of polyesters is their ability to resist wrinkling and to spring back into shape when creased. . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, and contains one of the largest permanent museum collections in the Americas. . Gift of Issey Mikaye, 1998.239. Mikaye, born in Hiroshima, Japan, studied graphic design and fashion in Tokyo and Paris. Mikaye favors designs that show a graceful meeting of art and technology. This Flying Saucer dress recalls the shape of traditional Japanese lanterns and some would say of flying saucers. Mikaye has many unique visions as a fashion designer which allow him to abandon typical ideas of dress, creating experimental and creative designs. The Flying Saucer dress holds its shape in a pleated style with seamed seam n. 1. a. A line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces of material along their margins. b. A similar line, ridge, or groove made by fitting, joining, or lapping together two sections along their edges. cylinders when worn which collapse flat when stored. Designs such as this emphasize the sculptural qualities of the designer's work and create visions of the body in all shapes and sizes through fashion and clothing. ?? Follow the contours Contours may mean:
GalleryCard submitted by Kellie Cason-O'Connor, Museum Educator, Department of Education and Public Programs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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