Japan Fashion Now

by Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears, Yuniya Kawamura

Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese “fashion revolution” of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But what has happened in the years since then?Lavishly illustrated, Japan Fashion Now will be the first book to explore how Japanese fashion has evolved in recent years. During this time, Japanese pop culture has swept the world, as young people everywhere read manga, watch anime, and play video games. Japan has had a profound impact on global culture, often via new media.With essays by Valerie Steele (“Is Japan Still the Future?”), Patricia Mears (“Fashion Revolution”), Hiroshi Narumi (“Japanese Street Style”), and Yuniya Kawamura (“Japanese Fashion Subcultures”), Japan Fashion Now explores how the world of fashion has been transformed by contemporary Japanese visual culture.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction, Japan, History, Art

265 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2010

About the author

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator and Melissa Marra is associate curator of education and public programs, both at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

Reviews

[Loli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book.

[Allison Thurman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not even finished with this book yet and my sense that modern Japanese fashion is one of the most exciting things going is confirmed yet again. Lots of fantastic photography and interviews/essays.