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Pleats Please Me (at last)

— by Alyson Walsh

 

Sometimes an item of clothing has strong associations: Don’t Look Now might have put you off red coats forever, one waft of a nemesis’ signature perfume can make you shiver. For me, Issey Miyake Pleats Please has powerful links to my fashion editor days (in the 1990s power dressing involved Pleats not shoulder pads). Let’s just say The Devil Wears Pleats, and move on. And I think I have moved on. It started with the Bao Bao bag, last year – suddenly everyone in central London was carrying a gorgeous prism tote (available HERE and HERE) – and now I’m finding Pleats are pleasing me. Reconciled, I’m able to look at this wonderful fluid fabric without my shoulders concertina-ing up around my ears. Pleat me up, Issey…

 

 

These images of lovely Pleats Aficionodos by Lucy Fitter are from Graduate Fashion Week.

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  Sometimes an item of clothing has strong associations: Don’t Look Now might have put you off red coats forever, one waft of a nemesis’ signature perfume can make you shiver. For me…