Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion - on exhibit in Australia to February 2015

Hiroaki Ohya 2001

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane, Australia, is holding an exhibition of Japanese fashion from 1 November 2014 to 15 February 2015.

The exhibit, of over 100 pieces, commences its selection from the 1980s and ends with the present day. Called Future Beauty it explores a range of designs and motifs collected from the Kyoto Costume Institute. These include minimalist designs to origami-type foldable dresses to the early 2000’s “Cool” Japan subculture dressing to elaborate techno-futuristic fashions. Ranging from the initial pieces at the start of the collection in black and white (a tribute to shadows) it covers the gamut of colour – but mostly the fashion includes the iconic colours of black and red.

Future Beauty features designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, Jun Takahashi, Tao Kuihara, Hiroaki Ohya, Matohu, Mikio Sakabe, Akira Naka, and mintdesigns.

http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au