Gender is but a repeated stylisation of the body..

...menswear ...french cinema ...1900s ...extravagance ...formality ...insanity

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Yohji Yamamoto- Japanese fashion designer based in Paris and Tokyo. Known for his oversized black draping silhouettes

Yohji Yamamoto, black layered gown, Spring–Summer 1999. Although Yamamoto’s  work is constantly evolving, it has retained several key elements; the ambiguities of gender, the importance of black, and the aesthetics of deconstruction.

Yohji Yamamoto, black layered gown, Spring–Summer 1999.

Although Yamamoto’s  work is constantly evolving, it has retained several key elements; the ambiguities of gender, the importance of black, and the aesthetics of deconstruction.

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Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

by PLEATFARMER on FEBRUARY 1, 2011

London’s Barbican Art Gallery is currently showing Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion – a survey of avant-garde Japanese garments. Drawing from the 1980s to the present (featuring names such as Junya Watanabe and Yohji Yamamoto), the exhibition explores the unique sensibilities and notions of beauty embedded in Japanese design – with heavy inspirations from origami.

Thanks to my snap-happy, London-dwelling sister, you’ll get a peek at the exhibition through her viewfinder.

pleated skirt by tao kurihara

Photography: Shr S.

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Radioactive: fashion future fears in Japan

August 6, 2011 | New Fashion | by  Flux Magazine|

When photographer Sasu Tei and his team showed us their images created as an expression of their ongoing fears for the future after the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and subsequent radiation meltdown, we loved them. But we also thought it would be interesting to ask the four artists to give us some personal thoughts on their experience, on their ongoing anxieties and their thoughts for the future. [Read these interviews on Flux here] 
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