Comme des Garcons F/W 12

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Sat.
24/03
Fred

Creative Highlight of Paris Fashionweek

When Rei Kawakubo showed her first Comme des Garçons collection in 1981 in Paris it was a creative sensation based on the artist´s preference for art, design minimalism and the non-color black. 31 years later Rei Kawakubo is still one of the leading designers from Japan and the basis of her success remains the perfect match of art and fashion.

Now when most of the F/W 12 designer collections are based on black It is Kawakubo who surprises with some bright new colors, flower prints, Yayoi Kasama´s dots and opulent forms, all seen in her new Autumn line which made it probably the most creative one seen from an artistic view. And of course we definitely like it.

Thus we recommend to see the the runway show in total by clicking on the image below and we are sure you´ll get some creative inspiration too.

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The Art of Japanese Fashion

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Wed.
23/03
Fred

Exhibitions in Munich & London

Yamamoto in V&A London

Since March 12th until July 10th 2011 the V&A in London presents a retrospective of the work of the incomparable master of Japanese Fashion design Yohji Yamamoto. Within the exhibition which was curated by Ligaya Salazar you will see all the great masterpieces including also the best pieces of the menswear collections. Yamamoto was the first designer who combined elements of Japanese art with Parisian Haute Couture or as he put it: " You can say that designing is quite easy, the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty."

Future Beauty in the Haus der Kunst in Munich

The exhibition in the Haus der Kunst shows between March 4th to June 19th a complete overview of Japanese fashion design within the last thirty years featuring the greatest brands like Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake und Yohji Yamamoto. These big names created in the 1980ies the unique Japanese style with its monochromatic mostly black colors and its fluid & reduced forms which put the focus purely on the perfect cut and proportion of the garments.

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Best of Japanese Menswear in Paris

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Mon.
24/01
Fred

Japanese Designers Collections F/W 11

Since the 1980ies Japanese Fashion Designers inspire the western world with their unique styles. On the following three slides we made a selection of their acutal Men´s F/W11 collections. The Highlight of this season was Junya Watanabe´s show. He mixed British & American college style with Scandinavia patterns in his unique way. As a positive surpriese Mihara Yasuhiro showed the colors of Autumn11 in his collection from cardigan, layered knitwear to the must have duffle coats.

The collections of Kenzo & Issey Miyake could be described as New Japanese Classic. They both integrated European classic style in their collections showing perfect tailored suits as well as sporty casual wear. While Kenzo presented colorful pieces in yellow, orange, red & pink tones too, Miyake choose some shaded tones in green, bordeaux and blue.

Finally Yohji Yamamoto as well as Rei Kawakubo´s Comme des Garçons collections validated once again the famous Avant-Garde Image of Japanese Fashion. Yamamoto showed oversized jackets, coats and trousers partly worn by untypical models as well as long velvet robes printed with vintage erotica.
Rei Kawakubo created the so called "Decadence-Collection" which to our opinon was artistically interesting but a rather non-fashion statement.

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Japanese Classics in Paris S/S11

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Wed.
24/11
Fred

Since Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto presented the first Comme des Garcons collection in Paris in 1981 nearly 30 years have gone. During this time both created their own brands and had massive creative influence on the European and Global Fashion world. Rei´s former protégé Junya Watanabe followed their success by creating his own label debuting in 1992 in Paris. This year the big 3 Japanese Classics presented their collections in their unique style. While Rei continued her artistic black and white look and sent out a model wearing three jackets at once, Junya showed stripes with gentle blue while Yohji added some lyric romanticism with beautiful colored dresses in yellow, blue and pink dye print dotted with stars. Once again a Japanese inspiration for all of us for next Spring.

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