Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Dress

spring/summer 2003

Materials

cotton, nylon, plastic

House / label

Junya Watanabe

Collection

spring/summer 2003

Archive reference

2017.256

Behind the design

Backpack straps and buckles inspired this spring/summer 2003 dress. Tightening them changes the silhouette; the Met compares the resulting puffed forms with eighteenth-century polonaise gowns and notes the butterfly embroidery.

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