2001.65.1

Images (9)

Technology_24 Left to right 2009.54.1 (dress), 2001.52.4 (black dress), 2000.16.1 (tie case), 2000.16.5 (textile case), 2001.65.1 (paper dress), 2004.43.3 (textile wall)

MinMax_41 Left to right 2000.108.1 (ensemble), 2004.49.4 (dress), 2011.18.10 (coat ensemble), 2014.61.3 (ensemble), 2018.12.40 (blue ensemble), 2018.12.23 (bag), 2008.77.1 (dress), 2017.1.1 (backpack), 2000.32.7 (ensemble), 2006.7.3 (suit), 97.36.3 (black gown), 2008.80.3 (coat), 2009.32.1 (dress), 2001.65.1 (dress wall)

Object: Dress

Designer: Hussein Chalayan (born 1970)

Date: 1999

Medium: White Tyvek®

Country: England

Credit Line: Anonymous Donor

Object number: 2001.65.1

DescriptionAirmail dress; white Tyvek printed with dress design, folded into large airmail envelope

Label Text:Hussein Chalayan designed his Airmail dress to be folded into an envelope and sent through the mail. The dress — made from Tyvek, a nonwoven, paper-like textile — incorporates the blue and red markings of postage envelopes. Chalayan is known for his themes of migration and communication. His Airmail collection appropriates the actual materials of global communication to create a streamlined wardrobe for the future.

In Collection(s)

1990s

Exhibitions:

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
Fashion and Technology
London Fashion
Minimalism / Maximalism: Fashion Extremes