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Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion

  • 06 Nov 2013
  • 26 Jan 2014
  • Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street Salem, MA


Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion

On view November 16, 2013 to

January 26, 2014

Peabody Essex Museum

Japanese designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto reshaped fashion in the early 1980s. The narrow silhouettes of Western couture gave way to flowing, sculpted forms. A reduced range of color emphasized cut and proportion. The voluminous spaces they created between body and fabric boldly redefined Japanese avant-garde fashion and forced people to reconsider the relationship between art, design and fashion.

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