Sunday, September 5, 2010

I THINK I'M TURNING JAPANESE-FIT MUSEUM EXPO


Gothic Lolita FIT 2008-2009

Gothic Lolita Style

Japan Fashion Now Japan Fashion Now
Special Exhibitions Gallery
September 17, 2010 through January 8, 2011

is the first exhibition to explore contemporary Japanese fashion in all its radical creativity, from designer fashion to street style, including menswear. An introductory gallery devoted to the Japanese "fashion revolution" of the 1980s includes asymmetrical, "deconstructed" garments by Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, as well as avant-garde styles by Issey Miyake, "Orientalist" fashions by Kenzo and Hanae Mori, and pop-culture jumpsuits by Kansai Yamamoto.

www.fitnyc.edu

Apologies... the links below are lot working via my blog. They'll be fixed in the next day or so I hope!

Another fasinating site which covers Japanese fashion including the eccentric styles of Japanese street fashion including Harajuku fashion
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/fashion/gothic_lolita.html

And last but not least yet another book including essays by the the brilliant Valerie Steele, Chief Curator of the Museum at FIT
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300167276

1 comment:

  1. Now that's an exhibit I will have to take the PGP to see! She's infatuated with Japan & Japanese street style and I know will flip! Thanks for posting this, I'm putting in mu iCal right now!
    XXX
    Suzanne

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