The pleat is not a detail. It is the material.
A-POC Necklace - Resin Preserved Textile Series - Gold Filled
Metal that
imitates fabric.
The tradition in textile jewellery is simulation. Metal is cast, hammered, or engraved until it evokes softness. The fabric is the inspiration. The reference is always at a remove.
The fold is translated. Something is always lost in translation.
Fabric that
is the material.
Actual Pleats Please fabric is encased in hand-poured resin and treated as a precious stone. Set into metal the way a diamond is set. Held, not mimicked.
The fold is not translated. It is kept.
The line in one sentence
Cloth Becomes Stone.
Pleated. Poured. Set.
Left - Pleats Cuff, 780 EUR. Right - Pleats Brooch, 550 EUR.
Five Pieces.
No Two Alike.
Each piece in the Resin Preserved Textile series begins with an actual panel of Pleats Please fabric. A single pour of optically clear resin seals the fold permanently. The metal setting is shaped around the cured piece - not the other way around.
A-POC Necklace - Cloth Becomes Stone - 2025
A-POC Necklace - Cloth Becomes Stone - 2025
Pleats Cuff - Cloth Becomes Stone - 2025
Resin Pendant - Cloth Becomes Stone - 2025
Resin Pendant - 650 EUR
How It
Is Made.
Process Film - Coming Soon
Selection
A Pleats Please fabric panel is selected for its fold density and cut by hand to the dimensions of the piece.
Pour
A single pour of optically clear resin seals the fold. One movement. No correction. The fold is fixed at this moment.
Cure
The resin cures over 24 to 48 hours. The exact geometry of the fold is established here and cannot be changed.
Set
The metal setting is shaped around the cured piece - not a template. The gold follows the cloth.
1997
A-POC patent
1 thread
No seam waste
18K
Commission only
Unique
Every fold
Atelier process documentation - Tokyo, 2025
1970 to Now.
Issey Miyake Inc. Founded
The house is established in Tokyo. Clothing begins with the relationship between a piece of cloth and the human body. Everything that follows is an elaboration of this idea.
Pleats Please Launched
A permanent pleating technique applied to finished garments. The fold is set by heat. It does not come out. The result is a textile with structural memory - the material at the core of every A-POC Jewellery piece.
A-POC Patent Filed
Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara file the A-POC patent. One thread. No waste seams. The technique predates sustainability as a fashion trend by more than two decades and remains exclusively held by Issey Miyake Inc.
Issey Miyake Passes Away
The house continues as an ongoing practice. A-POC Jewellery is one answer to the questions he spent fifty years asking.
A-POC Jewellery
Fabric as precious stone. Cloth becomes stone. Pleated. Poured. Set.
Pleats Please Fabric
Cut oversized, sandwiched in paper, passed through a heat press. The fold is permanent. The fabric holds its geometry inside resin without warping, yellowing, or losing definition. That is why it qualifies as a stone.
Gold Filled, Not Plated
Gold filled contains approximately 5% gold by weight, bonded under pressure - twice the gold of vermeil, waterproof, suitable for daily wear without replating. The choice of gold filled over vermeil is consistent with the founding logic of the line: material hierarchies are worth questioning.
See the
Pieces.
Five pieces in the Resin Preserved Textile series. Any piece available as an 18K commission.