Collection: Pleats Please Issey Miyake - Women

{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Issey Miyake dedicated the essence of his career to a question few designers have had the honesty and courage to pose so directly: why should clothing constrain the body rather than liberate it? This fundamental inquiry, nurtured by an education in the West and a sensibility deeply rooted in the Japanese culture of gesture and movement, has, over decades, produced textile innovations and approaches to garment construction that have lastingly expanded the possibilities of global fashion. Pleats Please, launched in 1993, stands as the most accessible and universally desirable culmination of this research, a synthesis of technical radicality and daily practicality that Miyake sought from his beginnings.\n\nThe manufacturing process that gives Pleats Please its unique character is a complete inversion of conventional garment logic. Each piece is cut and sewn from high-quality polyester fabric to a size three times larger than its final dimension, before being sandwiched between two sheets of paper and passed through a pleating machine. This machine permanently compresses and structures the material with enduring pleats whose memory resists washing, creasing, and time. The result is a fabric that simultaneously possesses the lightness and transparency of a veil, the elasticity of a jersey, and the structure of architectural textile, allowing for fluid silhouettes and saturated colors of an intensity that no other textile technique produces in the same way. Pleats Please garments are inherently wrinkle-resistant, extremely compressible for travel, and boast remarkable longevity – qualities that make them the most accomplished modern life uniform fashion has produced in decades.\n\nAt Actuel B, we offer a selection of Pleats Please Issey Miyake women's pieces, available in our boutiques in Avignon and Arles, as well as on our website. Pleated dresses, trousers, tops, and accessories are presented by teams trained in the technical and liberating universe of the house, with the personalized advice that characterizes our multi-brand luxury approach."}]}]}

• Pleats Please Issey Miyake

• Dresses
• Pants
• Skirts
• Tops
• Tunics