Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion.
"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." -PLEATFARMER
This particular exhibit took the flat pattern superimposed on white board seen at Isabel Toledo's exhibit to a brand new level- mounting the garments themselves flat against the boards. Unlike, Isabel's basic esque shapes, the garments in the Future Beauty exhibit looked more like a 'modern art' reinterpretations of the Chinese brush stroke art.
That of course isn't the only reason why this makes this exhibit super duper cool. As we are talking 'Japanese' fashion in the last 30 years. The most exciting, explorative and challenging branch in fashion. They pretty much invented 'avant-garde' way back in 1981. And it's a very known fact that my favourite designer of them all is Rei Kawakubo of Comme Des Garcons. Also, of note, if you browse through the pics in the link I posted at the end of this entry, are those beautiful collapsible origami dresses that look like shuriken when flat- Issey Miyake's latest outing, love them to bits.
So yes, I would really give anything right now to be in London for this.
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