







Issey Miyake x Dyson Spring 2008 Partial Jacket
$2,200.00 AUD
Issey Miyake’s creative director Dai Fujiwara and vacuum cleaner designer James Dyson team up to make customisable fabrics, and Shelley Fox uses MRI scans as fat-maps or blueprints to design a collection of dresses. The collection which explores a new avenue around the concept of wind between designer Naoki Takizawa, Miyake Design Studio's textile pioneer Dai Fujiwara and James Dyson. The collection was quite literally entitled 'The Wind' whereby the concept was to to explore a variety of wind forms and its technological innovation through design. Large turbines exerting wind pointing towards the runway in different parts were placed to discover the way garments would react in a theatrical sense.. The garment is a tech fabric of a jacquard imprint of the engineering flat 2D parts of Dyson cyclone mechanics of a vacuum cleaner. One could describe this as 'Mechanical Couture' as design and engineering are intrinsically linked; the form of a product develops in tandem with its function. Technological innovation and design are intimately connected, true symmetry can be found in the marriage of form and function without losing its intrinsic beauty. This cropped jacket can be worn upside down and back-to-front which features a drawstring sequence on each-side to explore various ways of wearing to resemble a vacuum cleaner bag.