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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, a comprehensive survey of avant-garde Japanese fashion features more than 100 costumes by original designers including Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto as well as younger designers influenced by popular culture and the dynamic street life of Tokyo.

This exciting exhibition, on view at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), highlights the tremendous innovation of Japanese fashion designers from the early 1980s to the present who revolutionized the way we think of fashion today. The designs reflect a range of influences from Japanese aesthetics, reinterpretations of Western couture, punk aesthetics and Japanese street fashion.

"The exhibition shows how Japanese fashion design launched itself on the world stage in the 1980s. Japanese fashion designers at that time developed breathtaking aesthetic positions that subsequently influenced a younger generation of Western designers including Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester and Alexander McQueen".
~~~Catharina Manchanda, SAM's Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Comme des Garçons (Rei Kawakubo)
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Rei Kawakubo
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garçons
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Junya Watanabe
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Yohji Yamamoto
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Mintdesigns
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Kosuke Tsumura
Courtesy Kyoto Costume Institute

Matohu
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Issey Miyake
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Hanae Mori
Photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is on exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum.

June 27 - September 8, 2013

Courtesy Seattle Art Museum

Also featuring in the Huffington Post

Monday, June 24, 2013

Photo of the Day

La conversation du matin avec l'ivre mort de la veille
Morning conversation with drunkard of the night before

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Lavish Hairstyles by J.D. 'OKHAI OJEIKERE

J.D. 'OKHAI OJEIKERE was born in 1930 in the western part of Nigeria. One of his cousins advised him to buy a camera and tought him what he needs to know. In his young days Ojeikere incessantly wrote to the Ministry of Information, asking them to hire him as an "assistant in the dark room". His tenacity was rewarded when in 1961 the first television station was founded.

At the eve of the decolonization he was contacted by the West African Publicity agency where he paid his dues; soon after he opened his own studio "Foto Ojeikere". In 1967 he became an active member of the Nigeria Art Council, a group in charge of organizing a festival of visual and living arts. This was an opportunity for Ojeikere to devote himself to Nigerian culture, to which he was deeply attached.

"Hairstyles" will be his most known collection, involving almost 1000 different hairstyles that give an image of the African woman. He found these "artsy sculptures" on the street, at weddings or at work.

Ojeikere lives and works in Nigeria. His Hairstyles series is currently on view at Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, at the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
La Biennale di Venezia
June 1 - November 24, 2013

J.D. 'OKHAI OJEIKERE

Hairstyles