Pleats Plisse

Issey Miyake created a most fantastic collection entitled Pleats Plisse, which, as you can guess from the name, offered a study on pleats.

(http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/16/pleat_narrowweb__300x495,0.jpg)


When I was in the mountains of China, I bought a pleated skirt from the Yao minority group that has lived there for centuries.
(http://www.asianethnicartifacts.com/skirt_detail_Yao_100_yrs_DSCN2283.jpg)

But pleats have existed even longer than that. Last week I found some that mother nature folded herself, a synthesis of the life associated with water and the platform created through the death of a tree.



(Images of Fungii taken by Marguerite Sander and published because they turned out better than the ones I took)