Love Fashion: In Search of Myself (Touring)
Fashion has a role as a receptacle for LOVE: the passions and aspirations of the wearer. Driven by those emotions, we may be motivated to wear something that we like, be inspired by someone’s look, want to be ourselves, or just want to lose ourselves. Fashion opens up a colourful world, like a kaleidoscope.
Dressing is a universal human activity. The clothes that we wear embody or conceal our internal desires, and they
can reveal those desires along with our longings, our passions, and the conflicts and contradictions that we face.
Fashion has a role as a receptacle for ʻLoveʼ: the passions and aspirations of the wearer. Driven by those
emotions, we may be motivated to wear something that we like, be inspired by someoneʼs look, want to be
ourselves, or just want to lose ourselves. Fashion opens up a colourful world, like a kaleidoscope.
This exhibition is based on clothes and other fashion items from The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) ʼs collection
of costume from the eighteenth century to the present day. In conjunction with art that throws light on
fundamental human drives and instincts, the exhibits encourage us to ponder the various forms of ʻLoveʼ that can
be seen in relation to fashion. Through this exhibition, we gain an opportunity to think about and reevaluate what
it means for humans to wear clothes.
Love Fashion: In Search of Myself
Period: Wednesday, 16 April ‒ Sunday, 22 June, 2025
Venue: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Open hours: 11:00 – 19:00（Last admission at 18:30)
Closing day: Mondays (except 28 April and 5 May), Wednesday, 7 May
Admission: adults 1,600 [1,400] yen / university and high school students 1,000 [800] yen
free for junior high and under
* Rates include admission to Various Aspects of Love｜From the Terada Collection 083 and project N 98 Yang Bo.
* Rates in brackets indicate discount.
* Free for person with disability certificate along with an attendant.
* Only one concession or discount can be applied at a time.
* Nonrefundable.
Organisers: Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, The Kyoto Costume Institute（KCI）
Sponsor: NTT UD REIT Investment Corporation
Special Cooperation: Wacoal Corp.
Cooperation: Lecien Corporation, Nanasai Co., Ltd., Yamato Transport Co., Ltd., Yoshichu Mannequin Co., Ltd.
Grants: The Obayashi Foundation, Thee Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Support: Embassy of Switzerland in Japan
Photography courtesy of © The Kyoto Costume Institute.