A-POC ABLE Issey Miyake is releasing new coats with Tomokazu Matsuyama, each one remaking the New York artist's paintings as a single piece of cloth. The drop extends the TYPE-XII project between the label and Matsuyama, paired with an exhibition at ISSEY MIYAKE / NEW YORK and its gallery space MADO, opening Thursday, July 9 and staying up through Monday, August 31.
Printed in vivid color in Kyoto, the base fabric carries a triangular pattern applied through a special technique, and the texture shifts dimensionally as the body moves, so the artwork never holds still on the wearer. That single-cloth logic is the meeting point of the whole project, A-POC ABLE's design process on one side, Matsuyama's layered imagery on the other.
The partnership began in Tokyo. For "Tomokazu Matsuyama: FIRST LAST," the artist's first major solo exhibition in the city, held at Azabudai Hills Gallery in spring 2025, the two produced limited-edition pieces, among them three coats remade from his artworks and sold only at the gallery. After the stir those pieces caused, the new coats bring the wearing-a-painting experience to a wider audience.
In New York, the exhibition gives the collaboration a physical world. Horses and riders, a motif Matsuyama has developed across years of work, take new form through the 3D printing technology behind A-POC ABLE's mannequins, shown alongside paintings connected to the project. Overhead, lengths of the label's multicolored fabric, the canvas for Matsuyama's remade works, hang suspended through the space.
