ISSEY - textile coupe

Postmodern pressures have seen the barriers between design disciplines eroding. Into this cultural maelstrom comes a concept which offers an aesthetic adaptability, enabling the style conscious consumer to own a car which can be stylistically altered and respond to the ubiquitous claim that all cars look the same. This would be achieved through licensing tie-ups with leading fashion houses.

The concept has a skeletal spaceframe chassis over which the removable textile, metal and polymer panels could be draped and attached. The concept proposes that cars are no longer mere forms of transport, with form no longer following function, but rather the form itself becoming its function.

'anything can be clothing' issey miyake

'brilliant - but do you drive it or wear it?' carweek