Object: Man's jacket
Designer:
Kansai Yamamoto
(born 1944)
Date: c. 1982
Medium: Linen
Country: Japan
Credit Line: Gift from The Collection of Robert Lee Morris
Object number: 97.29.4
DescriptionMan's blue and grey linen deconstructed jacket, showing inner structure on outside, including shoulder pads and interfacing; patch at right breast reads: Tailor Made, Kyoto Japan and shows flat pattern for the jacket
Label Text:The term “deconstructivism” derives from architecture. Although it was not regularly applied to fashion until the early 1990s, the concept was visible in clothing design a decade earlier. Kansai Yamamoto — fittingly esteemed as an “architect of fashion” — playfully deconstructed a suit jacket by applying components of interior construction, such as shoulder pads and interfacing, to the garment’s exterior.
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Exhibitions:
- Fashion Unraveled