Dress, Fall/Winter, Issey Miyake (1990). Collection of Mary Baskett.
Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
October 17–April 11
The Textile Museum, 2320 S Street, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20008-4088
This exhibition will include approximately 40 garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, informed in part by Japanese traditions such as the kimono, obi and the art of origami, produced radical garments with shapes and textures often incongruous with the natural contours of the human body. Their designs—characterized by asymmetry, raw edges, unconventional construction, oversized proportions and monochromatic palettes—effectively overthrew existing norms and set the stage for the postmodernist movement in the fashion industry. Miyake, Yamamoto, and Kawakubo remain three of the most successful designers in today’s fashion world, and under their tutelage a new generation of Japanese talent has emerged.
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