The Dutch designer Maria Blaisse has done a lot–from working with dancers and covering them in computer-controlled, motorized spheres of woven bamboo to creating grandiose structures out of mesh. But perhaps most interesting is the dialogue between Maria Blaisse and Issey Miyake.
Maria Blaisse worked with the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake on some of the most intricate, structural hats of all time. Though there is very little information on the collaboration, Blaisse, who is based in Amsterdam today, often posts about the hats on her own Instagram.
Most notably, Blaisse designed the intriguing hats of Issey Miyake’s spring 1987 collection presented in Paris. The duo spent over two months working together on the creations, which took an unsurprisingly unconventional approach to millinery. Take, for example, using Goodyear rubber tires as the base for the designs.
Generally speaking, Miyake’s hats of the ’80s are some of the designer’s most rare and artful pieces in existence, if you’re lucky enough to find one. Like this Plastic Cup hat, or this option that looks like a nunnery cowboy hat which I found secondhand at an unbelieveable price–also dating to the late ’80s/early ’90s based on the tag.
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