三宅一生的褶皱美学 Sculpture or Fashion? The Haute Couture of Issey Miyake

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著名时装设计师三宅一生因肝癌于8月5日去世,享年84岁。今天让我们再次回看他为东方时尚带来的那些永不谢幕的故事。

Though you could say fashion dates back to early civilizations like the Egyptians and Romans, the modern fashion house started in the 19th century.

Charles Frederick Worth is known as the father of haute couture, and the first designer to sew a label with his name into his designs.

His House of Worth in Paris was also the first boutique to use live models to demonstrate the look of his designs.

Couture items were custom made for the person wearing it and measured to fit.

This made pieces very expensive and time consuming to produce.

The fashion house couture designs were reserved for high society and royalty.

Back then, middle and lower class people only owned two or three outfits, and simple ones at that.

As fashion changed, they would alter their existing wardrobe adding details like collars and buttons to keep up to date.

But as the Industrial Revolution ramped up, fabric became cheaper, labor became more mechanized.

And by the 1900s, most people were wearing clothing off the rack produced in different sizes.

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