Emmett B
What is the history of Avant-Garde fashion and what is its influence on the modern art world?
QUOTE:
“…There remain consumers obsessed with the more avant-garde, which often leads to public ridicule for communicating a message different from the greater mass in an atmosphere where the semiotic exchange has become so standardised that anything else is seen as alien and even threatening, its value no longer recognisable.” Paul McNicoll, Emotional interaction and the avantgarde in fashion within contemporary atmospheres of mass production and consumerism, 165
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Bibliographic Information:
Author: Dorine condo
Title of article or book:
Title of publication (if article in magazine, newspaper, or journal): The Aesthetics and politics of Japanese identity in the fashion industry
Page numbers (if article in magazine, newspaper, or journal): Page 176-203
Publisher:
Date published: 1992
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Early 1980s big wave of japanese designers
Made use of architectural shapes, uneven clothes, and rips in fabric
Japanese fashion has become massive in all of the fashion capitals ]
Politics incorporated into garments
Paris epicenter of fashion
One is considered successful when they make it to paris
Many of the biggest japanese fashion designers make it to paris
Paris now owned by japanese designers
Fashion meant to go beyond nationality (not just “japanese” or “western”)
Garments use as little fabric as possible
This ties to traditional japanese garments as they did this too
Designers make us question assumptions we had about clothing
Kansai Yamamoto serves as a stepping stone to modern Japanese avant garde fashion (1)
Comme des Garcons opened by Rei Kawakubo
This brand is one of the most influential brands ever in fashion history (1)
Issey and Kenzo capitalize on this and start a new wave of avant garde fashion (1)
Yohji sees dramatic shift towards dark, deconstructed garments
This style still dominates Avant-garde fashion today
Rejection of western beauty standard
Start to see the separation of people on how they view these garments
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“Indeed, What counts as Japanese clothing when “western” clothing has been on the Japanese scene at least since the 1860’s and when today's designers grew up with blue jeans more than kimono?” 177
Summary of Source (2-4 sentences)
This source described the timeline of different japanese avant garde designers and how they influenced fashion. This also goes into fashion theory and the thinking processes of designers when creating fashion
Does this help me answer my question? Why or why not?
This does help me answer my question as it gives a history of japanese avant garde fashion, which is extremely helpful as it I am better able to understand the early works of some of fashion's most influential designers.
Lingering Questions
Connections to other sources
This connects to my deconstructionism source through Rei Kawakubo