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The ‘aesthetic of poverty’ in the work of Japanese designers of the late twentieth century
GRAP2230 - Fashion Studies 3
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A comparison and analysis of Japanese designers of the late twentieth century and how their influence has helped redraw the boundaries of fashion away from the restrictive Western ideals. The radical references and ideas of ragged, tattered, poor, ill-fitting, second-hand inspired clothes in Yamamoto and Kawakubo’s works largely shown throughout their earliest collections, have revolutionised the fashion world and challenged the cliché depiction of luxury fashion through the ‘aesthetic of poverty’ as coined by curator Harold Koda. Although not the first to discover and develop this aesthetic throughout history, Yamamoto and Kawakubo being inspired by the past, in particular the punk era established by Westwood and McLaren and arguably the years of impoverishment that faced Japan after World War II. Either way Yamamoto and Kawakubo have undoubtedly set the stage for post modernist interpretation of not only the confronting aesthetic of poverty but also of fashion in general.
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