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Pitti Uomo preview: Shinyakozuka, the brand creating 'wearable picture books'

The Pitti Uomo fashion trade fair, held between January 13 to 16, will bring together industry professionals from around the world in Florence, Italy. Among the many exhibiting brands from across the globe, one brand will present a special runway show alongside last year's LVMH Prize winner Sohsiotsuki and Headmayer. That brand is the Japanese...

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The avant-garde designers who haunt and hypnotize us

Conceptual and avant-garde are generally interchangeable terms in fashion, although both are lesser-used now than they once were. They describe garments that raise eyebrows and questions, and expand our perception of clothing. The designers of such pieces are generally uninterested in mass production, scalability, conventional standards of...

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Barbican to exhibit 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

The Barbican Art Gallery is to host Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique...