Future Beauty, 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at the Barbican.

Today I went to Barbican for the 30 Years of Japanese Fashion exhibition.  It was an amazing exhibition, fascinating, motivating and the perfect source of inspiration for my innovation design project.  It surveyed japanese fashion from the 80's up until today.

This is the first exhibition to show avant-garde Japanese fashion, transforming the world of couture in the late 20th century ' visionaries such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion'.  They turned fashion into art by using fashion as a form of expression and challenging western notions of beauty.

Unfolding by Janek Schaefer,
 The composition is made from 4 x 44 minute
shifting loops spread out across four pairs of speakers
 in the space, subtely shifting the sound textures
 and tones all around the different levels and zones
of the show. It forms an underscore for
the work on display, weaving them together
and suspending them in a sense of unfolding wonder. 

Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garcons Spring/Summer 2007,
reminiscent of the Japanese flag.

Jun Takahashi/Underver, Spring/Summer 2007,
 this dress is made up of hundreds of skull faces!

 Issey Miyake, A-POC ( a piece of cloth )