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Designer: Yohji Yamamoto

born 1943

Medium: Black silk crepe
Date: Fall 2006
Country: Japan
Credit: Museum purchase
This corset has been described as “the twenty-first-century equivalent of whale-boning.” Alternatively, it evokes the human rib-cage.
Object Number: 2007.2.1
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