Completed studies in architecture, specialising in gemmology. Training that ranges from the macro to the micro, within which Simona Tagliaferri developed her passion for accessories, and more generally for the structures in materials. An experience that has involved collaborating with leading international brands, and resulted in the pieces carrying her name being exhibited in various contemporary art galleries, including the prestigious MoMa Gallery in New York.
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The title chosen for the Pleats Please winter collection is a tribute to the work of the most prominent Mexican architect, Luis Barragàn.
Abstract shapes and lively multicoloured designs on bags, trousers, dresses and sweaters strongly recall that lush and surreal Mexico interpreted by the architecture of the master from Jalisco. The vast wall surfaces painted with bright colors, often crossed by unexpected cracks that offer glimpses of fountains of crystal clear water, are echoed by Issey Miyake’s most famous pleats.
The designer has always personally designed Pleats Please, a range which has always been the subject of his most joyous fantasies. Every season it is devolped by following a guiding theme. If, in the past, the most representative paintings of the Italian Renaissance embraced the entire silhouette in the form of dresses and t-shirts, now the inspiration is clearly Barragàn’s Mexico.
The deep pink of flourishing tropical bougainvillea, the yellow gold of the earth and the bright local houses, or the crisp blue of the cloudless sky and the sparkling blue of the clear waters, dissolve in the volumes of clothing and accessories in high-tech textiles.
In fact, each garment is initially cut and sewn on flat fabric, it is only later, thanks to the extremely advanced techniques that have been patented by the well-known Japanese Maison, that it undergoes the pleating process. In addition to allowing extreme volumetric plasticity, this unique pleating remains intact over time. It is so practical that it can be machine washed and transported anywhere, as it always keeps its shape.
A timeless, poetic product, Pleats Please gives its best when mixed with other suppliers, by completing them with surprising harmony.
Below, a sequence of outfits, from the Ivo Milan‘s shop, worn by Sari and Elena.
First outfit: ‘blue/grey’ hat Nafi; ‘musk green’ overcoat and ‘olive’ scarf Volga Volga; ‘blue pink’ t-shirt Cauliflower; ‘cornflower’ skirt Pleats Please; ‘black’ boot Trippen
Second outfit: ‘orange’ padded hooded gilet Pleats Please; ‘musk green’ overcoat Volga Volga; ‘blue pink’ t-shirt Cauliflower; ‘cornflower’ skirt Pleats Please; ‘black’ boot Trippen
Third outfit: ‘beige’ hat Scha; ‘blue’ asymmetric sweater Oyuna; ‘beige’ pants Pleats Please; ‘black/white’ Marsèll “goccia”
Fourth outfit: ‘light grey’ sweater Cosmic Wonder; ‘beige’ pants Pleats Please; ‘black/white’ boot Marsèll “goccia”
Fifth outfit: ‘black’ hat Nafi; ‘cornflower’ cardigan and ‘black/nut’ scarf Daniela Gregis; ‘beige’ pants Pleats Please; ‘black/white’ boot Marsèll “goccia”
Sixth outfit: ‘burgundy’ hat Scha; ‘black’ blouson Sacai; ‘chestnut’ pants Pleats Please; ‘burgundy’ boot Trippen
Seventh outfit: ‘navy’ hat Scha; ‘indigo’ jacket Junya Watanabe; ‘green’ scarf Cauliflower; ‘multicolor’ pants Pleats Please; ‘blue’ boot Trippen
From Paris showroom, Pleats Please-Issey Miyake F/W 2011-2012, order of Ivo Milan
On September, 30, Friday, at rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, 54, the new Rei Kawakubo’s concept store has been opened. The following words, said by the members of the staff of the famous designer are interesting to read, in order to understand the idea that leads the Trading Museum:
Museums can be of many kinds and be founded for many purposes, such as recreation, study, education, tourism and even for civic pride.
Trade has probably existed in one form or another for about 150.000 years. The realm of trading is where mankind’s most significant meetings take place, bringing together all kinds of people, randomly and deliberatly.
Trading Museum Comme des Garçons is a space where the two above mentioned notions come together.
We hope to create a world where there is a reason and story behind all the goods we collect, show, display and or sell.
It will be a place where shopping is not the only objective. It will be a shop where “just looking” will be encouraged and merely being inspired can also be the aim.
A retail space beyond trends, outside fashion, where the barriers between trading and museum come tumbling down.
On this occasion, until October 29th, the Trading Museum present “Simulacrum and Hyperbole” series 2, the multimedia installation by Katerina Jebb, worldwide famous photographer, known for her co-operations with many personalities of international stardom and and for her particular interpretation of the so-called “society of the spectacle” and the mass aesthetics.
During the opening, the new perfume by Comme des Garçons was also launched.The essence, contained in a paradoxical waste bottle, represents a metaphoric invitation to reconsider the many objects that we don’t normally consider.
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To show once again how the limits between art and fashion are indefinable within the so-called Japanese school, we report the curious installation the architect Yoichi Yamamoto made, for Issey Miyake’s boutique in Tokyo.
A series of blue chairs, where the colourful hats by Akio Hirata, the most important Japanese hat designer, are hung and displayed.
The position of the hats hides an artificial optical effect, that is obtained through a clever combination of three-dimensional elements, the chair backs, and two-dimensional elements, the legs of the playful blue chairs.
When you look at the shop-window from a certain point of view, the apparent plainness of the installation is able to deceive the ingenuous observers. Only from a different point of view, the complicated and surprising optical illusion is revealed.
Another evidence of the essential value that is added by different skills is clear when a shop-window is not merely considered as a transient display of items to be sold, but also as a special place where abstract compositions can be shown and shared with a moving audience.
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