Dutch design studio Luis Marie has channelled the traditional craft of pleating to create an acoustic room divider that can stand on its own despite being made entirely from textiles. More about Luis Marie pleats recycled fabric to create "first-ever all-textile room divider"
Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. More about Peter Pichler Architecture encloses geometric office block with pleated facades
The Milan office of David Chipperfield Architects has designed a minimalist boutique for fashion brand Akris in Washington DC, featuring pleated walls and displays suspended from thin wires. More about David Chipperfield Architects designs minimal Akris boutique in Washington DC
Swedish design studio Folkform has teamed up with fashion designer Roland Hjort on L'Art Plissé, a lighting design exhibition of table lamps based on traditional pleating techniques used in fashion. More about Folkform and Roland Hjort launch Plissé table lamps informed by pleated fashion garments
Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed and engineered a federal courthouse for a sloped site in Downtown Los Angeles, which appears as an elevated cube with folded glass facades. More about SOM wraps Downtown LA courthouse in pleats of glass
Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners has rebuilt the facade of the 1920s Cedar Hotel, and added a glass tower with a folded front to create more accommodation. More about Pleated glass tower tops Viceroy Chicago hotel by Goettsch Partners
Chicago-based firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to add a series of glazed pavilions with pleated roofs to an arts centre in Arkansas, as part of a major renovation and extension project. More about Studio Gang unveils plans for Arkansas Art Center overhaul
Strips of perforated aluminium give a pleated appearance to the facade of this Shanghai tower designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for property developer Soho China (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma dresses Shanghai tower in pleated aluminium for Soho China
Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has transformed the interior of a concrete building in Tokyo into a space for fashion designer Issey Miyake's pleated menswear collection (+ slideshow). More about Naoto Fukasawa designs stripped-back interior for Homme Plissé Issey Miyake store
Niches cut into zig-zagging concrete surfaces display leather accessories "like artefacts" at Valextra's David Adjaye-designed space in London department store Harrods (+ slideshow). More about David Adjaye uses crinkled concrete panels for Valextra concession at Harrods
Stockholm 2016: Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has created a range of homeware with Finnish brand Iittala, which includes pleated place mats, tote bags and cushion covers (+ slideshow). More about Iittala x Issey Miyake Collection unites "minimal design languages" of Japan and Finland
Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has created undulations across clothing in its Spring Summer 2016 collection by baking it in an oven (+ movie). More about Issey Miyake bakes fabric to pleat Spring Summer 2016 garments
These images by French photographer Francis Giacobetti of dancers wearing pleated Issey Miyake garments are on show at the Daikanyama T-site venue in Tokyo. More about Francis Giacobetti photographs leaping dancers wearing Issey Miyake's pleated garments
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has formed garments from a fine steel mesh burnished in swirls for her Autumn Winter 2015 ready-to-wear collection. More about Iris van Herpen creates dresses from circles of lustrous metal gauze
Voluminous origami-influenced garments and headdresses featured in Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe's catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. More about Junya Watanabe folds textiles into mathematical patterns for Autumn Winter 2015
German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. More about Jule Waibel recreates origami paper dresses in chiffon
German designer Jule Waibel has created 25 of her folded paper dresses for fashion brand Bershka's shop windows around the world (+ movie). More about Origami dresses by Jule Waibel designed for Bershka stores in 25 cities
Crinkled polished metal wraps around this electrical testing facility in northern Spain by ACXT Architects (+ slideshow). More about High Voltage Laboratory by ACXT Architects
Dezeen archive: pleats have cropped up in a number of architecture and design projects recently, so our latest archive features a collection of folded, fluted and crinkled design. See all our stories about pleated architecture and design »
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Layers of blue fabric pleated into origami-like patterns bounced down the catwalk at Central Saint Martins graduate Jaimee McKenna's Autumn Winter 2013 show. More about Autumn Winter 2013 collection by Jaimee McKenna