Issey Miyake has set the opening date for its new Pleats Please flagship.
On Dec. 12, the corporate will open a flagship at 14 Kenmare Road in New York’s NoLIta. The two,224-square-foot area on the nook of Elizabeth and Kenmare Streets is on the bottom flooring of architect Tadao Ando’s first constructing in New York and his first residential constructing outdoors Asia.
The retailer is being designed by the Japanese agency Second and also will characteristic 60 toes of frontage on Kenmare Road. The design idea focuses on a collection of sharp traces working via the fashionable, industrial area. There are concrete flooring and partitions, lighting rails which are embedded in metal plates that reach overhead and paneled partitions manufactured from white molded resin which are supposed to reference the pleats that characterize the model and its pleating course of.
To have fun the opening, a brand new number of pleated tops, skirts and clothes known as Soil & Leaf might be accessible completely at this location.
This retailer will be part of one other Pleats Please unit at 126 Prince Road in SoHo, which is able to endure renovations in early 2025. These are the one Pleats Please shops within the U.S. though there are others in Toyko, Paris and all through Asia. The model can be carried on the Issey Miyake flagships in Toyko, Paris, London, Milan, Zurich, Osaka and Kobe. There’s additionally an Issey Miyake flagship at 119 Hudson Road in TriBeCa.
Issey Miyake launched Pleats Please in 1993 and it quickly turned one of many designer’s most profitable enterprises as a result of its simple shapes, modern prints and suitability for journey.
The late designer began to experiment with pleating within the late Eighties after an exhibition of his work on the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. As he recalled within the e-book “Pleats Please Issey Miyake,” “After the exhibition, I turned satisfied that I had already completed all the pieces that I may. And so I started to consider a brand new journey upon which to embark.”
That journey led him to dwelling in on pleats. As he informed WWD in a 2007 interview: “In 1988, I began working with pleats, and I wished them to carry their form and be simple to take care of and to be washable.”
At present, the gathering contains all the pieces from shirts and sweaters to clothes and jumpsuits in solids and patterns for girls in addition to a group known as Homme Plissé for males that can be centered round pleats.
