Exhibition
A Tokyo Culture Creation Project
Luxury in fashion Reconsidered: Special Exhibition
展覧会
A Tokyo Culture Creation Project
Luxury in fashion Reconsidered: Special Exhibition
Venue : Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT),Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
会場 : 東京都現代美術館
Japan(Tokyo),USA(San Francisco)
日本
2009-2010
2009-2010
Organization : Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), The Kyoto Costume Institute
主催 : 東京都 東京都現代美術館・東京文化発信プロジェクト室(財団法人東京都歴史文化財団）、公益財団法人 京都服飾文化研究財団
Co-curator : Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for Comme des Garçons
共同キュレーター: 妹島和世による空間デザイン / コム・デ・ギャルソン
Artists :
Balenciaga, Beer, Chanel, Christian Dior, Comme des Garçons, Courréges, Grés,Issey Miyake, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Madeleine Vionnet, Maison Martin Margiela, Paul Poiret, Pierre Cardin, Roy Lichtenstein, Schiaparelli, Thierry Mugler, Viktor & Rolf, Worth, Yves Saint Laurent
アーティスト :
Balenciaga, Beer, Chanel, Christian Dior, Comme des Garçons, Courréges, Grés,Issey Miyake, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Madeleine Vionnet, Maison Martin Margiela, Paul Poiret, Pierre Cardin, Roy Lichtenstein, Schiaparelli, Thierry Mugler, Viktor & Rolf, Worth, Yves Saint Laurent
The world of fashion design is marked by strict impositions arising from the overwhelming predominance of economic factors, such as the principles of usefulness and functionality, but it is also a world in which, as a reaction to this, luxury can be approached in a spirit of 'excess and playfulness.' Today, all manner of styles and images from the past to the future are being symbolised and combined in a game-like fashion and then presented along with something akin to jamais vu. Also, thanks to the magic of digitalisation, differential differentiation is gaining traction, with newness emphasised through the slightest difference in material or in the positioning of buttons, for example.
Rei Kawakubo resists such developments with a passion.
(Excerpt from the catalog "Laxury as Resistance: Rei Kawakubo, Yuko Hasegawa)
The world of fashion design is marked by strict impositions arising from the overwhelming predominance of economic factors, such as the principles of usefulness and functionality, but it is also a world in which, as a reaction to this, luxury can be approached in a spirit of 'excess and playfulness.' Today, all manner of styles and images from the past to the future are being symbolised and combined in a game-like fashion and then presented along with something akin to jamais vu. Also, thanks to the magic of digitalisation, differential differentiation is gaining traction, with newness emphasised through the slightest difference in material or in the positioning of buttons, for example.
Rei Kawakubo resists such developments with a passion.
(Excerpt from the catalog "Laxury as Resistance: Rei Kawakubo, Yuko Hasegawa)
