A BLOG is excited to announce a new exhibition opening at the Barbican in London in October this year, entitled Future Beauty: Japanese Fashion, 1981 – 2011. The exhibition is curated by Akiko Fukai, a Japanese fashion historian and the director of Kyoto’s Costume Institute, and is Europe’s first in-depth study of avant-garde Japanese fashion from the past twenty years. From the early years of the influential trio of Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake to their proteges such as Junya Watanabe and UNDERCOVER’s Jun Takahashi, Japanese fashion will be explored from the established masters to the new guard of radicals.

For the scenography of the exhibition, Fukai will work with Sou Fujimoto, one of a new generation of Japanese architects working closely with the natural world, white space and abstract forms.

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Japanese Fashion 1981 – 2011
15 October 2010 – 6 February 2011 
Barbican Art Gallery