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The exhibition, running from June 18 to Sept. 28, explores the bond between fashion and cinema over 30 years, from 1925 to ...
Jean-Michel's estate has been consistently continuing the legacy of the poignant artist and storyteller. Here's the story ...
A show at the Saint Louis Art Museum explores technological and artistic advancements of the interwar period.
Mikio Sakabe, 49, a designer who runs his own fashion school in Tokyo, tells me that the avant-garde is linked to the country’s postwar era ... When the Meiji Restoration of 1868 brought ...
However, once Japan opened up to the world during the Meiji period (1868-1889 ... and witness the evolution of an iconic piece of period Japanese clothing through contemporary fashion.
The new scholarly yet accessible book The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era sets the record straight with remarkable clarity. Author and curator Rosina Buckland’s book joins ...
"Vase With Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Abstract: This paper describes a digital archive of Fashion, Dress and Behavior (hereafter called FDB) from Meiji to early Showa period (1868-1945) in Japan. This period when kimono and western style ...
What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...