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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Adamson

Issey Miyake’s fashion sculptures blur the line between clothing and art

France Fashion Issey Miyake F/W 25/26 - (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

The Paris Fashion Week collection felt soft and elemental, as if blown by the wind, and deceptively simple. That’s the art of Issey Miyake — cutting-edge techniques creating clothes that drift like clouds. Sound and look simple? The execution was anything but.

For fall, Satoshi Kondo on Friday embraced ambiguity, blurring the line between sculpture and wearability, structure and fluidity. Designed around the idea of a single piece of cloth, the collection continued Miyake’s legacy of transformation — garments that shift, adapt and invite the wearer to complete them. Inspired by Erwin Wurm’s performative sculptures, the show at Carrousel du Louvre saw models folding, bending, and reshaping their clothes, turning dressing into an act of creation.

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