This title profiles the works of ten designers whose use of textiles, meticulous attention to material and workmanship, and interaction with other creative disciplines have created a new atmosphere of connectivity and engagement on the Tokyo runways.
Thirty years of Japanese fashion -- Contemporary Japanese fashion and local traditions -- Independence, venturing out of the Paris collections, Comme des Garçons, and the structural components of Tokyo fashion -- Exhibiting contemporary fashion: a new collaboration between architecture and fashion -- Thoughts on venue configuration /-- Works by and interviews with the designers of 10 brands : Clothes to subvert the visual sense -- Cool Japan style -- Back to the source of "sweetness" -- Creating new styles of clothing based on common threads found in Japanese aesthetics -- Special daily wear -- Creating clothes as design products -- "We want to be like a Sasquatch: an elusive, mysterious presence in the world of street fashion" -- Evolving form of knitwear for the future -- "The world will become a theater stage if we have clothes" -- writtenafterwards: Yoshikazu Yamagata, poet/fashion designer/philosopher.
