Suit
Designer
Yohji Yamamoto
(born 1943)
Fall 2006
Black silk crepe
Museum purchase
Object number2007.2.1
This corset has been described as “the twenty-first-century equivalent of whale-boning.” Alternatively, it evokes the human rib-cage.
DescriptionThree-piece suit in black silk crepe; open oversized jacket with attached inner ties and puffed sleeve on drop shoulder; sleeveless collared shirt with attached outer "cage" corset; in self-covered whalebone; long asymmetrical skirt with self-covered whalebone band at left hipCollections
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