Object: Suit
Designer:
Yohji Yamamoto
(born 1943)
Date: Fall 2006
Medium: Black silk crepe
Country: Japan
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2007.2.1
DescriptionThree-piece suit in black silk crepe; open oversized jacket with attached inner ties and puffed sleeve on drop shoulder; sleeveless collared shirt with attachedouter "cage" corset; in self-covered whalebone; long asymmetrical skirt with self-covered whalebone band at left hip
Label Text:This corset has been described as “the twenty-first-century equivalent of whale-boning.” Alternatively, it evokes the human rib-cage.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Gothic: Dark Glamour
- Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT