1997 A/W Yasumasa Morimura "La Source" Pleat Dress

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 im