{"exhibit":{"id":10,"title":"The avant-garde: Japanese Modernism in Fashion","description":"

Although there had long been an international high fashion scene, globally centered around Paris Fashion Week, three notable Japanese designers crashed into this scene around the 1970's, making quite a stir with their avant-garde take on high fashion and clothing structure.  They not only changed international understandings of high fashion, but became permanent icons in Japan as the creators of a uniquely Japanese take on high fashion.<\/p>\r\n

Please read my visual essay<\/a> for more information on the relationship of these artists to the international high fashion scene and to learn more about their international reception as a group. The purpose of this online exhibition is to getting a fuller picture of the designers as artists within the context of a genre, so please peruse their pages at your desire.<\/p>\r\n