There is something about finding new exhibitions in London, researching what its about, telling a girlfriend and making an afternoon of getting totally lost among it all. Today I had the special opportunity of viewing Japanese fashion at the Barbican gallery and YES it was a total success! I've never been to the Barbican before but for all you lovelies out there it's a wee adventure finding number one how to get there, for some unknown reason my mind seemed to think it was close by but as my lovely cabbie drove off into the city I was brought into reality. Number two, its HUGE and seems to be equipped with about everything from cinema screens to costa coffee. I felt slightly out of place walking through sporting a seriously poofy ski jacket and new House of Harlow moccasins...(a large majority of people were in suits and tie's). But once I entered the artist's gallery a swarm of college students...blatantly studying art as they replicated people at St Martins who resemble someone coming from an Alice in Wonderland fancy dress party (which Im all for by the way). The layout worked well, the lighting was brilliant and the outfits...incredible. I like diversity in people's work and collections and this ticked all the boxes.
It's the first exhibition in Europe to survey avant-garde Japenese fashion, from the early 1980's to now. Works by Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto are presented alongside those by the next generation whose radical concepts continue to defy convention. The exhibition explores characteristics which have come to define fashion from Japan. Material experimentation unites the work of the exhibited designers. Garments made from flawed of aged fabrics. Japenese designers introduced revolutionary conceptual form and the language of deconstruction therby changing international fashion forever!
I really recommend anyone go, I've posted some pictures as a preview for you all (and a little sketch of my own). Taking the pictures was a bit of a mission as the annoyingly tall supervisor kept on asking me to 'refrain from photographic images'.
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