Future Beauty

30 Years of Japanese Fashion

By: AKIKO FUKAI

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Hardcover | 11 January 2010

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256 Pages

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29 x 21 x 2.5

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FUTURE BEAUTY is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art. Today a new generation of radical designers, among them Tao Kurihara and Jun Takahashi, is fast gaining acclaim. This spectacular book, written by a team of experts led by the eminent fashion historian Akiko Fukai, explores the distinct sensibility of Japanese design ? the uniqueness of its form, cut and fabric. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches, Future Beauty is an authoritative and stylish guide to some of the world's most expressive fashion. SELLING POINTS: . A major new study of avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present day . Featured designers include such international masters as Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Jun Watanabe, as well as a new generation of radical designers, such as Jun Takahashi 250 colour

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The first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last three decades - more than 250 sketches and photographs of pure genius. - WWW.7x7.COM ...offers a stunning glimpse at how designers like Rei Kawokubo, Junya Watanabe, Issey Miyake, and others have changed the face of high fashion. -DWELL MAGAZINE

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