Ensemble
Yohji Yamamoto imbued the Japanese avant-garde deconstructionist approach to tailoring with a more romantic, historicist vision, as in this bustle coatdress with skirt with drawstring gathers, which he presented for fall/winter 1995–96. The black-hued collection mixed feminine dress elements from the late nineteenth century such as the bustle with masculine tailoring accents from the Edwardian era, giving rise to a new silhouette, which embodies the concept of Walter Benjamin's Tigersprung (tiger's leap), fashion's leap into the past to create an ever-changing present.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ensemble
- Designer: Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943)
- Date: fall/winter 1995–96
- Culture: Japanese
- Medium: (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2020
- Object Number: 2020.63a–c
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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