1998 Guest Artist Series #4 Cai Guo Qiang Gunpowder Long Pleated Shirt Dress Colour:Cream and tote bag

and tote bag

A monolithic masterpiece from Rick Owens Spring Summer 2019 Babel collection

eyelet vents under arms

five-pocket styling

Each piece is imbued with this Romanticist philosophy: an amalgam of the grotesque and the beautiful

1998 Guest Artist Series #4 Cai Guo Qiang Gunpowder Long Pleated Shirt Dress Colour:Cream and tote bagA collaboration between contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang and Issey Miyake Pleats Please for the brand's 1998 guest artist series. Famous for his use of pyrotechnics, Cai Guo Qiang is renowned for "public explosion events"; gunpowder and pigments are set alight, with abstract drawings composed from their destruction. For Miyake's fourth guest artist series, Qiang conjured these destructive works of art onto the designer's pleated fabrics to be