Like other fleeting trends of the '80s and '90s, our subsiding infatuation ... “[T]o many historians the exposure of modern ‘Japanese fashion’ to a suddenly more accepting international ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...