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Kimono refashioned : Japan's impact on international fashion
\"Kimono Refashioned explores the impact of kimono on the world of fashion from the 1870s to now. Featuring works from the renowned Kyoto Costume Institute, it includes Japanese and Western designs, men's and women's apparel, and both exacting and impressionistic references to kimono. Kimono has influenced global fashion since Japan opened to the world in the late nineteenth century. Motifs used to decorate kimono, its form and silhouette, and its two-dimensional structure and linear cut have all been refashioned into a wide array of garments. Kimono revealed new possibilities in clothing design and helped to lay the foundations of contemporary clothing. Six essays from experts in the field discuss Japan's impact on international fashion. Four catalogue sections explore early examples of the influence of kimono; Japonism in fashion from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; contemporary fashion and its use of kimono's flatness, silhouette, weave, dyeing, and decoration; and how Japan continues to inspire the world of fashion through its incorporation of popular design, including manga and anime\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transcending fashion: Japanese design and 'future beauty'
Recently in the mail arrived a very exciting delivery: an original copy of the February 1982 special issue of Artforum that featured an Issey Miyake garment on the cover. I had sourced the issue, which also contains an Andy Warhol centrefold and a Laurie Anderson limited edition, from an international second-hand dealer and had it sent at vast expense. It is indeed 'special'. But its relevance hinges, rather, on the cover, which broke serious ground and asked the difficult question: can fashion be art? In the case of Miyake, we might say yes. And no. His work is held in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, among others, and he has made a career of pushing the boundaries of both art and fashion. 'Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion', which opens this month at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, is an exhibition that examines the significant legacy of the Japanese designers who emerged in the early 1980s, among them Miyake, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Gar ons and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as Junya Watanabe, while looking to the new generation of innovators such as Tao Kurihara, Hiroaki Ohya, Matohu and Akira Naka. The exhibition's curator Akiko Fukai, Director of the internationally esteemed Kyoto Costume Institute, has selected over 100 garments that articulate something of Japan's genre-changing coterie of designers.
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