Rust ‘harvest’ inspires one-off designer jeans
Tokyo-based Issey Miyake subsidiary A-Poc Able Issey Miyake, led creatively by Yoshiyuki Miyamae and his “team of engineers” since its launch last year, is due to launch a one-of-a-kind pair of denim jeans on July 1.
The project, called Type-IV, has been spearheaded by local designer Yuma Kano, who was inspired by the patterning of industrial rust and his ability to harvest these patterns onto acrylic resin.
Alongside the brand, Mr Yuma noticed rust’s “high affinity” with jeans, particularly in terms of how worn-in jeans soften and accrue their own kind of patterning thanks to the wearer’s accumulation of experiences over time, the label said.
Forming part his wider Rust Harvest body of experimental materials work, the garment’s three-dimensional weave structure was informed by how the designer was able to cultivate rusted patterns into jeans-friendly shapes, including five pockets.
After engraving patterns on metal plates, the designer subsequently harnessed natural elements such as sunlight, rain, soil and seawater to produce rust, before removing its patterns by hand and transferring them onto resin blocks. Another crop of rust is then generated on top of the same metallic surface.
Each pattern was knit together digitally, before the final garment was ultimately woven using polyester for the warp and cotton of two different thicknesses for the weft.
Image: Issey Miyake.
