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Wedding dress

Designer Yohji Yamamoto Japanese
spring/summer 2000
Not on view
Executed in a cotton muslin, this wedding dress is emblematic of Yamamoto's deconstructive eye; the typical patterning fabric evokes the silhouette of a work-in-progress, and the designer's large basting seam stitches complete this transitional, unfinished aesthetic. Yamamoto poetically fuses brash, hasty underpinnings with couture detail to produce a garment that is at once modern and traditionally elegant. Both dramatic and absurd, the dress connotes the formality of the runway but the comfort of the boudoir.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wedding dress
  • Designer: Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943)
  • Date: spring/summer 2000
  • Culture: Japanese
  • Medium: a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon
  • Credit Line: Gift of Minori Shironishi, 2003
  • Object Number: 2003.573.8a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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