February 1982. (Artforum).(Brief Article)

Twenty years ago this month, editor Ingrid Sischy's eyebrow-raising cover image of a model in an Issey Miyake "rattan bodice and nylon polyester skirt" introduced the February 1982 Special Issue. Walker Arts Center curator and onetime Art forum managing editor Richard Flood looks back at Sischy's pleats pleas.

THE FEBRUARY 1982 Artforum was designated a "Special Issue," and indeed it is. First, there is the cover, a photograph of a model wearing an Issey Miyake ensemble. Inside, Lawrence Weschler delivers a brilliant essay on the design graphics of Poland's ...

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