Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

by Akiko Fukai, Barbara Vinken, Susannah Frankel

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art. Today a new generation of radical designers, among them Tao Kurihara and Jun Takahashi, is fast gaining acclaim. This spectacular book, written by a team of experts led by the eminent fashion historian Akiko Fukai, explores the distinct sensibility of Japanese design – the uniqueness of its form, cut and fabric. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches, Future Beauty is an authoritative and stylish guide to some of the world’s most expressive fashion.

Genres: Fashion, Japanese Literature, Art, Nonfiction, Fashion Design

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 2010

About the author

Akiko Fukai is a Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts.

Reviews

[Josephnovak]

The designers featured at the end of the book titled "next generation" include: taro horinchi, mikio sakabe, mintdesigns, anrealage, somarta, and ne-net.