When two names like Issey Miyake and the French designer Ronan Bouroullec come together, something exceptional can only come out of it! The Homme Plissé collection is more than clothing: it is wearable fine art that explores the interaction between dressing and design.
Clothes that look like abstract images on the snow-white wall, just like in a contemporary exhibition. Yet where can this happen? Since then, the Issey Miyake Homme Plissé collection presentation has been referred to as one of the most groundbreaking events of Paris Fashion Week, where the models walked the runway in the brand's trademark pleated textiles - dresses, shirts, jackets and scarves with Ronan Bouroullec's abstract drawings. Overwhelming effect!
WOVEN ARTISTIC VISION
The two big names have not met for the first time, as Ronan Bouroullec and his brother are designing the interior design of Issey Miyake's store in Paris - and the relationship has not been broken, they just followed each other's careers from a distance. This is also why Bouroullec could decide (allegedly in 10 minutes) to make an exception this time and make his drawings available to Issey Miyake after rejecting many previous requests. In Bouroullec's hands, the highlighter felt and the ballpoint pen also become artistic tools: he likes to use simple drawing tools to create his characteristic flowing, meditative style with meticulous and delicate strokes. His drawings are not only full of abstract moods and intuitions, but also full of colors – they are the ideal accompaniment to Miyake's garments combined with the characteristic pleating technique.
WHITE CANVAS FOR DRAWINGS
The Homme Plissé collection, instead of simply giving space to the drawings as a static presentation, quasi-white canvas, undertakes more: it transforms the art, Bouroullec's colorful drawings, by weaving, embroidering, and sometimes using tapestry techniques and making them wearable. The collaboration is embodied in quite surreal garments: sculptural-style jackets made of a single fabric, scarves that can be worn as turbans, asymmetric silhouettes, dresses wrapped in colorful layers that can be worn in multiple ways. Perhaps the most astonishing of all is the jacket with one on it
a huge pocket was added with the aim of being able to turn into a pillow. The dilemma of whether fine art can still have new forms of expression and whether we can still find common points of intersection in the field of design will certainly not arise in this case.