Japanese Street Style
Title | Japanese Street Style PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Lyttle |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-04-10 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781408156711 |
Japanese Street Style by Pat Lyttle is the first book to showcase innovative and cutting-edge fashions from Tokyo, one of the strongest and fastest-growing style capitals in the world. Tapping into Japan's rich culture, its fashion scene is an exciting blend of traditional dress and innovative modernity. The book features stunning one-of-a-kind photographs of all the major fashion tribes, from Gothic Lolita and Harajuku to Dolly Kei, Ganguro, and Kigurumi to the popularity of the furry tail. Inspiring and thought-provoking, Japanese Street Style provides an unprecedented look at an enormously influential current trend in the fashion world— Galliano, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, and Alexander McQueen have all looked to Tokyo for inspiration from its rich visual culture, fine textiles, and craftsmanship techniques. This first-look guide to contemporary Japanese fashion is a must-read for anyone interested in fashion, trends, and culture.
Japan Fashion Now
Title | Japan Fashion Now PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Steele |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Fashion |
ISBN | 9780300167276 |
With essays, this book looks at how the world of fashion has been transformed by contemporary Japanese visual culture.--[book cover].
Ametora
Title | Ametora PDF eBook |
Author | W. David Marx |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781541604339 |
The story of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look--known as ametora, or "American traditional"--and turned it into a huge business for companies like Uniqlo, Kamakura Shirts, Evisu, and Kapital. This phenomenon is part of a long dialogue between Japanese and American fashion; in fact, many of the basic items and traditions of the modern American wardrobe are alive and well today thanks to the stewardship of Japanese consumers and fashion cognoscenti, who ritualized and preserved these American styles during periods when they were out of vogue in their native land. In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past hundred and fifty years, showing how Japanese trendsetters and entrepreneurs mimicked, adapted, imported, and ultimately perfected American style, dramatically reshaping not only Japan's culture but also our own in the process.
Japanese Fashion
Title | Japanese Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Slade |
Publisher | Berg |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009-11-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1847887481 |
Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example. The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last 200 years of Japanese clothing. It is also the first book to include Asian fashion as part of global fashion as well as fashion theory. It adds a hitherto absent continuity to the understanding of historical and current fashion in Japan, and is pioneering in offering possible theories to account for that entire history. By providing an analysis of how that entire history changes our understanding of the way fashion works, this book will be an essential text for all students of fashion and design.
New Fashion Japan
Title | New Fashion Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Koren |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Costume designers |
ISBN | 9784770011763 |
Japanese Fashion Designers
Title | Japanese Fashion Designers PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie English |
Publisher | Berg |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0857850547 |
Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike. Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers. It outlines their major contributions and the subsequent impact that their work has had upon the next generation of fashion and textile designers around the world. Designers discussed include: Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Naoki Takizawa, Dai Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Tao Kurihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo & the Nuno Corporation, Makiko Minagawa, Hiroshi Matsushita, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang.
Make Your Own Japanese Clothes
Title | Make Your Own Japanese Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | John Marshall |
Publisher | Kodansha International |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780870118654 |
Contains detailed instructions on making Japanese garments, from kimono towo-toe socks, using either traditional Japanese sewing methods or easierodern methods. The book includes patterns, fabric suggestions and sizingnstructions.