30 years of Japanese Fashion Exposition in London
You have just a few days left to organize a not to be missed visit to the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The biggest multi-art gallery in Europe has been housing for some months this first European retrospective on Japanese fashion. Three decades of experimentation, traces and signs disrupting the history of the worldwide costume, the exposition is taken care of by the most outstanding historian of Japanese fashion design, Akiko Fukai, Director of Kyoto Costume Institute.
A deep view into the different poetics of the forerunners of the made in Japan: Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake e Rei Kawakubo, known as Comme des Garçons and of their direct cultural heirs: Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, Tao Kurihara, just to quote some names.
Supplied with catalogues, magazines and video witnessing the prolific collaborations made in these times with famous representatives of other visual arts, the exposition also presents many collateral events: music, cinema, theatre, ballet and workshops.
A rare chance to admire and plunge in the futuristic world of the so-called Japanese school, radical expression of the fashion world which, since the Eighties, has revealed the never ending opportunities deriving from putting a complex intellectual project as foundation of clothes making. In total breaking comparing to the occidental tradition which, on the contrary, is always placing the human silhouette as the starting and arrival point of any work, the expressions of the fashion art at the Barbican Expo reveal collections shaped around aesthetic-philosophic subjects. Uncommon syncretism of traditional worlds and ultra modern urges, transferred with textile abilities completely unknown in Europe, replace the clothes from its place as fundamental daily accessory, to an artistic and permanent expression of a whole era.
Future Beauty. 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
October 15th 2010 – February 6th 2011
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Catalogue
To those who can’t go to London, we bring to their attention the opportunity to buy on line the catalogue of the exposition: Future beauty. 30 Years of japanese fashion (Merrell) by Fukai A., Vinken B., Frankel S., Kurino H.
On the other hand, for those wanting to see or buy the clothes of the designers exposing at the Barbican, in addition to the wide set in the web site www.ivomilan.it, we bring to attention the section special room, which presents a selection of the most representative garments of the poetics of every collection. An actual “private collection” of real works of art.
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