In the 80s, Japanese fashion aficionados were enamored by the punk, heavy metal, and goth rock sensibilities that had become popular in the US. Thus, Visual Kei was born. Characterized by heavy ...

The loss of greats Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake heralds the end of a fashion era, decades after Japanese design revolutionised Parisian catwalks in the 1970s and '80s. And the French capital ...

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The aesthetic output of 80-year-old Japanese fashion revolutionary Kawakubo – whose cocooning, intentionally worn-in and predominantly black silhouettes sent shockwaves through Paris Fashion Week when ...

Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan’s biggest fashion brands and was known for ... Fusae Ichikawa in the 1970s — when she was in her 80s — to be his model, sending the message that garments ...

After his heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, and as Japanese fashion gained global prominence for its cultivation of a pared-back minimalism, Kansai continued to explore his interest in traditional ...

the designer is credited for bringing Japanese fashion to the mainstream. He infused energy into high-fashion runways in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, his brand continues to delight today with ...