From basic pleats to complex interlocking folds, origami could deliver better fitting, more comfortable, and more stylish face coverings.

The KUDDLAVA lamp from IKEA is an 11-inch-tall lamp that has both a pleated base and shade. It resembles paper origami, but ...

The excess material formed a flap at the back that, with a quick ironing, turned into the long origami pleat. The original side seams created a flattering corset effect.

At the Milan showroom of an Italian fashion designer, Neiman Marcus Group merchant Rachel Goldberger last week watched as a model twirled in a blue silk cocktail dress with origami pleats.

The mystery of how a single-celled predator extends its "neck" by more than 30 times its overall length has finally been solved ...

The accordion-like pleat is a common solution: in some leaves, such as hornbeam and beech, the pleats are not simply parallel ridges but radiate in V-shaped arrays from a central stem or focus ...

Issey Miyake has long been the outfitter of the design cognoscenti. But who knew he was also their bag man? The Japanese designer, who died in 2022, is best known for Pleats Please Issey Miyake and ...

Similarly, Marisa Tomei’s dove gray, one-shoulder Versace gown with spiraling origami pleats was so ornate, you barely noticed her.

By replicating L. olor ’s cellular origami, it may be possible to design micro-scale machines whose movements are encoded into patterns of pleats and folds in their artificial membranes. If achieved, ...

Prada’s modern geishas wore stiff satin folded into clunky avant-garde origami shapes bedecked with dahlias, peonies and poppies rendered in bold Mod shapes.

Several tomes — on subjects including Issey Miyake and John Galliano — for your coffee table.