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 (?).
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| Itchiku Tsujigahana |
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| Itchiku Tsujigahana |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| Kenzo, Takada Kenzo, 1985. |
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| 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) |
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| Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons (The Cutting Edge: Fashion From Japan Edited by Louise Mitchell p.101) |
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