辻ヶ花; Japanese fashion

I got some Japanese fashion books out of the library. I wanted to visualise connections between personal identity and cultural identity, and how that manifests itself in fashion. Fashion photography uses the creation of a character to support the clothing depicted, or vice versa. Clothes are an expression of a time and a place and a person or a culture or an organisation. Clothing is a tool of identity, and thus arguably a mode of communication itself, like all art or creative works (?).

Itchiku Tsujigahana

Itchiku Tsujigahana

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. 

Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons black torn knit, photo by Peter Lindbergh 1982. (The Cutting Edge: Fashion From Japan  Edited by Louise Mitchell p.21)

Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons (The Cutting Edge: Fashion From Japan  Edited by Louise Mitchell p.101)

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