Last September ( 2011 ) the issue of the dwell magazine was dedicated to the japanese design (architecture,
craft and industrial design primarily).
As Aaron Britt wrote in his article in the magazine: "we'd utterly remiss if we didn't give a nod to the tremendous
influence of japanese fashion".
So, he referred to the show that the Barbican Art Gallery presented in 2010, called Future Beauty: 30 Years
of Japanese Fashion.
Truth is that my knowledge of the japanese culture and art, I would say, is surface, my admiration though, is deep.
I think that anyone who has seen, mostly, old japanese movies or with themes about past times as well, is affected by
the culture of their historic context. The landscape, the architecture, the costumes and the habits of the past are points
of reference and perception, for the most of the "western" people, about Japan.
However, as much as my perception allows me to understand, I presume to say that modern japan society contains and
develops the culture of the past. Steadily stepping on the patterns that the philosophy, which created the minimalism
long before the "minimalism", craved. Teaching us the wonderful complexity of the simplicity through the art, the design,
the architecture, the craft and the fashion, which in this case is an art with clear influence from architecture and origami.
1. Hiroaki Ohya
2. Rei Kawakubo
3. Rei Kawakubo
4. Junya Watanabe
5. Rei Kawakubo
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