Ensemble

Title: Ensemble
date created: spring/summer 2024
designer: Jun Takahashi (Japanese, born 1969)
design house: Undercover (Japanese, founded 1990)
has culture: Japan
material: silk (textile); polyester (fiber); cowhide; polyvinyl chloride; synthetic rubber
description: For Undercover's spring/summer 2024 collection, designer Jun Takahashi created a series of dresses containing terrariums filled with live butterflies and flowers. These translucent silk dresses were lit from within, inviting comparisons to costumes from fairytales, ballets, and Studio Ghibli films.
subjects/references: Terrarium; Rose
collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art; View on Met Website
accession number: 2024.159a–e