kawakubo+yamamoto

imamekashi---futuristic, up to date---the highest compliment in han dynasty japan, where out of date color kimono, would be ridiculed

iki is elegant chic
fujoshi is girl otaku, nerd, lit. house
fujoshi might work as butler in the butler cafe
must book appointment
butler greets: welcome home, princess

erokawaii i s erotic cute

karasuzoku are the girls who wore black in the late 70s in the style of yamamoto and kawakubo.
i didnt know they were a couple how cool!!!!

they are my favorites plus issey miyaki and junya watanabe

tao for comme des garcons show with handwritten "be inspired always" around the eyes---almost like drown on eyelashes

here is from the same show


what helped was to read the social commentary on what this fashion means.

and then to understand this unnamed fashion that i think of as this mod yamamoto effect, with gareth pugh lingering.
i was thinking: what is the name for this look that i prize . . . back turkish pants, punk hair, flowing scarves, baggy everything . . . sculptural . . . glasses, nerdy and modern and eighties
these cute boys, who are in LA, they are in london, they are creating this androgynous, flowy, all black wonderful thing.
and the flat yamamoto oxford shoes have finally come mainstream the flast few years.
such that heals look very un-imamekashi to me
except wedges, i admit  . . .


the cultural significance of black and assymetrical coverings, which hid the form, was said to be a rejection of the constant objectification of female flesh. that a return to cover, was about a powerful woman, who did not need to exploit herself, or expose herself constantly.

my friend caleb one day said my style looked very issey miyaki.

love too then the large scultptural elements---such that fashion might distort the form, and take it to a place of mystery and the opposite of nature

junya watanabe for comme des garcons


rei kawakubo


very happily absorbed in a book at the tate modern bookstore on japan fashion
very inspiring
yamamoto said the samurai spirit is black
the samarai must be willing to throw himself into the nothingness
and that color bores him in a few minutes.

rei kawakubo said that she is over the last ten years, liking black more than ever.

plus so happy: limi feu
interesting the talk of zen and wabi sabi
japan aesthetics
in praise of shadows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows