PRESENTATIONLOOKS EXHIBITIONBEHIND THE SCENES

HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE’s design and making is founded upon comprehensive research and development. The creative process begins with observing and scrutinizing the subject of interest—an image, an idea, or a phenomenon—followed by the syntheses of the findings into vocabularies relevant to clothes-making, generating a dynamic loop of discovery and experimentation.
It is during this process that, given its exploratory nature, unexpected and unintended elements present themselves. These serendipitous moments serve as seedlings of creativity and are further developed through a series of studies, later translated into products designed for modern lifestyles.
This exhibition Amid Impasto of Horizons presents a survey of the studious research and development that have led to the fruition of the eponymous Spring Summer 2026 collection, juxtaposed with a landscape of pleated, sculptural explorations that depict what is yet to be discovered about the brand’s original pleating technology.
Looping around the expanse of the villa is a thematic curation of objects from the studio studies and experiments inspired by the team’s fieldwork in Florence and other Italian cities, examining the making of colors, fabrics, and garments of the collection.
Interspersed inside and outside the loop of curated objects is a series of sculptural studies that extends beyond the collection, exploring and grasping formal qualities of the pleated fabric, with a strong emphasis on the spontaneous, if not ephemeral, beauty found within the process.
As the title proposes, this exhibition and the collection reflect the many layers of research and development—accepting and adapting the unpredictable nature of the creative process. What lies in between the layers expands into picturesque vistas, connecting past experiences to future practice.

A quote from the exhibition director

Connected to the collection, this exhibition is deeply rooted in the design team’s process of research and development. It is the product of a close collaboration, from idea to realization, between the Misawa Design Institute at Nippon Design Center and the HOMME PLISSÉ ISSEY MIYAKE design team. Not familiar with working with textiles, we were fascinated by the freedom we found in the versatility of the pleated fabrics—sculptural and transformative, other worldly. This exhibition [referring to the sculptural explorations] is a demonstration of how we have engaged with the material, where we enveloped, covered, wrapped, folded, and layered it, allowing the fabric to form itself.


— Misawa Design Institute, Nippon Design Center, Inc.
Haruka Misawa