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Fashion Redefined: Miyake, Kawakubo, Yamamoto

Start Date 28 April 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Newfields Museum
Location Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Curator Niloo Paydar
Exhibition with exhibition name on the wall next to doorway.
Exhibition with white walls and graphic decorations with plinths holding mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with white walls with graphic decoration, plinths holding mannequins displaying garments and an interactive Virtual Dressing Room for visitors.
Exhibition with black walls and an interactive Virtual Dressing Room for visitors.
Exhibition with black wall with graphic white letters spelling Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto, a text panel and a plinth with leaflets.

In the 1980s Japanese designers challenged the principles of Western fashion by introducing clothing that draped and wrapped the body, concealing its contours and silhouette. Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto and other avant-garde Japanese fashion designers rejected the idea that women’s clothing had to fit an idealized hourglass-shaped female body. Their innovative designs set new standards for shape and proportion and coined a contemporary definition of “universal beauty.”

Images courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana, USA.