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Download Free PDF. Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan. Masafumi Monden. 2015. Japanese contemporary culture, including fashion, has increasingly gained popularity outside Japan, making it a timely topic for both scholarly and wider publics.
Using Rei Kawakubo as a case study, this research aims to understand how fashion can redefine society’s image of a clothed body’s race, gender or ability, while simultaneously delineating the political and social expectations of that body’s behavior.
There have been two waves of arrival of Japanese fashion in the West. First, the export of traditional Japanese fashion items such as kimonos and fans in line with Japonisme and second, the debut of the ‘big three’ Japanese designers (Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo) in Paris around 1980.
This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent in Japan and beyond, contesting common perceptions of gender in Japanese dress and the...
4 maj 2023 · "Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example.
Women’s clothing was worn in many layers; there were twelve layers for the formal dress known as junihitoe. During the Kamakura (1185–1333) and Muromachi (1336–1573) periods, the men of the warrior (samurai) class who were at the seat of government wore sokutai on formal occasions, but their ordinary dress was.
Literally “twelve layers”, this is the term for the formal court attire of Heian women, consisting of a kosode, a hitoe, a naga-bakama, and many layers of uchigi, often finished with a karaginu and mo.
