Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
Fri 15 Oct 2010 to Sun 06 Feb 2011
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
T: 020 7638 8891
Visitor Information
Daily 11am-8pm (Tue and Wed until 6pm)
Thu until 10pm
Tickets: £8 online/£10 on the door
Eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, curates this exhibition exploring the unique sensibility of Japanese design. The show follows Japanese fashion from its first impact on the fashion scene in the late 20th century, when the work of designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto began to gain recognition, through to the present day.
These designers helped shape a very cool Japanese 'look' – often pared-down, oversized, unusually shaped and sleekly stylish. Also on show will be fashion from Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno-couturier Junya Watanabe, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara, Fumito Ganryu, Matohu, Akira Naka and Mintdesigns.