Future Beauty : 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Today i went to this exhibition on Barbican Centre and i got lost on my way there, thank god i bring a map. well, i just live here. Anyway, Its about Japanese Fashion. It is the very first exhibition in Europe to survey avant-garde japanese fashion from the early 1980's. Mostly as we know, the Japanese visionaries such as : Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo - Comme des Garçons. redefined the basis of fashion. They used clothing as an autonomous form of expression, turn fashion into art.

Here the work of Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto are presented alongside Junya Watanabe, Jun Takashi, Tao Kurihara, and Mint Designs.

This is my scrap paper during the visit.

Issey Miyake, folded garment 2010.

Issey Miyake, recognised as most innovative designer today. We known him by his interpretation on technique and material innovation. Both suited the modern lifestyle as well.

 

 Jun Takashi A/W 2000-01 | Melting Pot Collection 

Anarchic punk style. Adopted from culture of street fashion, he designs for his own label, his own admission- tread a fine line between beauty and the ugly. He got a Gothic constructive characterised by its patched,layered,slashed and bold printed graphic.

Yamamoto " i know its just a fabric. but it speaks to us like a world. If it were a dessert & youre a traveller, you would talk about its stars, its sun, you probably will"

Issey Miyake S/S 1999

This is the craziest and the most awesome piece of art i have ever seen. A-POC they called it. Which stands for "A piece of cloth". You can spell it "epoch". Revolutionary concepts weaving process that produce fully finished garments w/out the need of machine sew seams. A long tube double knit fabrics are woven flat on computer - controlled looms an yam linked in a fine mash of chain stitches embed on a garment shape. Then the wearer removes the cloths from section of the roll, by cutting along marked lines & when cut free stitches layer of mesh at bottom shrinks & stop the whole fabrics from unrevealling.

Koji Tatsuno A/W 93-94 

Golden Brown of nylon net dress.

A little information about him , Tatsuno moved to london in 1980 & taught himself fashion design wjile experimenting with rare craft technique. 1993 he launch his own label Culture Shock. Along side Pret-a-Porter he also present art on a garment. This dress above later are used in the main character of peter in Green Away film the Pillow Book 1996.