On Wednesday 12th January we all took a trip to the Barbican in London to take a look at the Future Beauty: 30 Years Of Japanese Fashion exhibition. The exhibition brings together the work of the avant-garde Japanese fashion designers of the 1980s to the present day and shows a contrast between Japanese and European fashion. The designers included Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo who all had parts of their collections on display, who had an enormous impact on the world’s couture in the late 20th Century. They are also designers who involve peformance art in their catwalks to project the inspiration and influence behind their collection.
Instantly looking at the clothing on display it was clear that they were pieces of art rather than pieces of clothing based for practicality. There were drapes coming down from the ceiling, surrounding pieces of work by each designer, with each outfit on its own individual stand and small description of what it was. The pictures show just a small amount of the work on show. The techniques used challenged Western notions of beauty and redefined previous notions of fashion.
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