Issey Miyake and the ease technical menswear could not price
The pant is filed as ease because the labor has already disappeared into the cloth. Miyake made convenience technical, and the category mistook the absence of burden for the absence of seriousness.
Quiet Modernism Editorial
What happens when technology removes its own evidence?
The garment still appears, but it no longer holds design’s final authority. In this volume, intelligence moves away from the finished object and into process, surface, protocol, system, and acquisition.
