MANIFESTO

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MUSE TWENTY FANZINE

PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE

2023.09.07

The silhouettes in the PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE series recall and celebrate Issey Miyake’s 30-year commitment to an innovative, lightweight and versatile material, the plissè.

It was the 1993 when Issey Miyake set out to devote himself to new systems of fabric manipulation using textile modeling and new wear techniques. While keeping in mind his own cultural origins Miyake also drew on other clothing traditions, anticipating in the field of fashion the globalization that would be so much talked by everyone in the following decades, the changes were not only in the shape of garments, but also in the cut and materials used to make them. Today PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE presents PATH, a special series featuring abstract prints of the letters of the words “PLEATS PLEASE,” which appear to move freely on the body. MONTHLY COLORS: MAY garments, on the other hand, are directly inspired by the original PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE logo, recalling its bright colors and pastel tones. Thus vibrant multicolored silhouettes alternate with chic monochromatic ones.

PATH, ISSSEY MIYAKE.

“Clothes should fit comfortably – not too tightly – so that you have space to move in and think freely.”

– Issey Miyake

SPECIAL MOVIE, ISSEY MIYAKE.

Kenzo Takada, Junko Koshino, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Junya Watanabe, and compatriot Miyake wrote between the ‘70s and ‘80s in the history of fashion the love of research, today this appears necessary in order to think of a new woman confident in intellect and not in form: clothes must be characterized by fluid structures to conceal feminine silhouettes. Sharply contrasted with Italian and European fashion, which had focused in those years on women’s bodies to make them more seductive. The models wearing today the series dedicated to the anniversary of the brand, symbolize musical notes, which together form a symphony; the movement that once again, unites the clothes and the body reappears as the protagonist. PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE reminds us thirty years later that it is possible and necessary to continue to overturn archaic visions of fashion, undoing the opposition between Japanese and Western clothing, achieving the fusion of even very different cultural identities.

MONTHLY COLORS: MAY, ISSEY MIYAKE.

FW24

Creative freedom

2024.02.28

A collection that rethinks the concept of fashion as a manifestation of power and full representation of creativity, investigating the historical legacy and future of femininity. The looks in Dior’s FW24 collection convey the radiant power of a pluralistic, autonomous and versatile femininity, reactivating that key moment of creative freedom of which Miss Dior is the emblem.

COLLECTION

SPIRIT

2024.02.25

The Fall Winter 2024 collection by Maximilian Davis is an interpretation of the 1920s through a modern lens, particularly inspiring as it offers a new perspective on the elegance and rebellion of that era.

BOTTEGA VENETA

RESILIENCE

2024.02.25

Like the scorched landscape that offers its harsh yet fertile land, Bottega Veneta’s FW collection invites reflection and hope. It is a testament to the inner strength that emerges from the trial by fire, conveying a message of resilience and rebirth as life’s challenges are faced.

MILAN

Elegance and Tradition

2024.02.24

To celebrate and renew the invitation to an open dialogue with the city of Milan, Loro Piana FW24 reiterates its delicate and calm language of making fashion, a Loro Piana method, that is, the absolute search toward the consistency of product history and above all a sustainable and reliable fashion idea.

FW24

Nightly Tribute

2024.02.23

Emporio Armani pays homage to a luminous night sky, quilted with stars and ruled by a shining moon. The FW 24 collection captures a chromatic sensation and translates it into wearable forms.