Dress
Designer
Hussein Chalayan
(born 1970)
1999
White Tyvek®
Anonymous Donor
Object number2001.65.1
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.
DescriptionAirmail dress; white Tyvek printed with dress design, folded into large airmail envelopeCollections
Exhibitions