JAPANOLOGYFOCUS ON JAPANESE CREATIVITY

a cura di Orietta Pelizzari

Art and creativity

Jalapagos

THE JALAPAGOS SINDROME

JALAPAGOS SINDROME

Japan’s Galapagos Syndrome,is used to describe how Japan still seems to be disconnected from the world in several spheres.

Is the new galapagosized culture of Japan just waiting to be discovered again and adopted by the outside world as a paradigm of the exquisite, the charming and the useful?

Design Coop: the new market design exibition by creator’s

cooperative.

http://www.design-coop.jp

Ba to Ma Wall

• http://www.artdiv-hpf.com/batoma/en/

Design Tide Tokyo

http://www.designtide.jp

Jumble. The exibition of art and design

http://www.jumble-tokyo.com

Aoyamadori St and Omotesando St.= AOSANDO

http://www.aosando.com

The Place

…social community…retail…culture…people…entertainment….

The Center of Now

Pass de baton

• East and west, north and south. Each region has its own cultural climate.

•The modern marketplace contains a vast diversity of commercial products.

Creating something new is a wonderful thing, but taking good care of an object that is already there can be magical.

•Pass on your Personal Culture.

Hermès and Pas de Baton

• “j’aime mon

carreè” Items to treasure over generations

Zozotown: Up-And-Coming in the Japanese Online Fashion Scene

• ." Zozotown's virtual shopping boulevard.

• Zozotown

Rag Tag vintage multistore

• http://www.ragtag.jp/pc/pdetail/1110/24027/

Lift – Daykanyama, Tokyo

• http://www.lift-net.co.jp/index.html

• Concept boutique • Our most is: pursue originality and challenge

perceptions.• Gustavo Lins• -Mihatayasuhiro• -Cornelian Taurus• -The Viridi+Anne

designers

…on the stage!

• shoes: AKAMINE (AKA INTERNATIONAL / ZAPATA)

• http://www.aka.co.jp/

•SHOES: TETSUYA UENOBE

• http://sites.google.com/site/uenobe/uenobeartline

• shoes: MOE ENOMOTO

• http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080624jk.html

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN

John Lawrence Sullivan is a Japanese man clothing brand designed by Arashi Yanagawa.

Unlike many designers from Japan, he started

his career as a professional boxer. His inspiration for John Lawrence Sullivan came from the boxer of the same name who, in the 1880s became the first true champion in heavyweight boxing.

He is intrigued by the challenge of matching patterns and materials, leading to aesthetic pieces of art. He continues to pursue the elegant

image of sleek silhouette and fine tailoring.

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: JULIUS

Julius is a Japanese man fashion label run and designed by Tatsuro Horikawa.

The label focuses on presenting a wide array of gothic inspired clothing, utilizing the color black extensively to explore its meaning in both Avant Garde, spiritual, and religious aspects of the designer’s life.

It's not only a clothing brand but a global concept and a complete creative aesthetic world which also encompasses global Art Direction and graphic design.

The goal of a designer, according to Horikawa,

is to contribute to the lifestyle of the individual rather than just the wardrobe.

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: YOSHIO KUBO

“There are so many outfits in the world, and people keep buying and wearing outfits for daily life. The large number of clothes has paralyzed people’s thinking of wearing and

dressing. Therefore, I like to design clothing that makes people think meaning of details and wearing.”

yoshio kubo/muller of yoshiokubo http://www.ykgf.jp/undecorated MAN http://www.undm.jp/

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: SOMARTA

Somarta is a clothing brand started Tamae Hirokawa. Hirokawa, who originally worked with Issey Miyake in the Miyake Design Studio in the 1990s debuted with Somarta over the course of two

years in 2006. The brand focuses on the use of lace, knit, and macramé among many other design methods that have been quite popular with the Japanese fashion magazines and press.

The essence of Somarta is the use of full piece bodysuits as well as similarly styled clothing that introduces multiple different forms of design into similar products. Items from the Second Skin Series include the full piece body suits, a line of underwear, and a much more wearable line of clothing including things like pleated pants, capes, and trench coats for outer wear.

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: AGURI SAGIMORI

She presents a uniquely Japanese aesthetic through her concepts of feminine beauty and enchantment, frailty and strength. Through her designs, this 24 year old continues to redefine the nature of tailored clothing.

Aguri Sagimori work, represented in her self-

named label, is a combination of high concept designs and edgy cuts that allows her to take on the modern development of fashion with classic styles.

JAPANESE DESIGNERS: DRESS CAMP

DressCamp is a japanese fashion label and clothing line created by Toshikazu Iwaya, and now led by Marjan Pejoski.

The line represents a combination of modern designs and stereotypes and classic, 1970s and 1980s themes.

The essence of DressCamp’s clothing is to create themes and designs that harken to numerous

specific time periods and eras in fashion design. Using patterns and styles from the era, DressCamp presented excessive, flaring clothing, hot pants, big hair, scarves, and halter tops.

JAPANESE DESIGNERS IN PARIS:

JUNYA WATANABE

ATSURO TAYAMAwww.atsurotayama.jp

TSUMORI CHISATOwww.tsumorichisato.com

JAPANESE DESIGNERS IN PARIS:

JUNKO SHIMADAwww.junkoshimada.com

TAO KURIHARAwww.atsurotayama.jp

SACAIABE CHITOSE

JAPANESE DESIGNERS IN PARIS:

TOSSY MIURA www.universal-lab.com/tossymiura

THE DRESS & COHIDEAKI SAKAGUCHIwww.thedress.jp

NAOSHI SAWAYANAGIhttp://naoshisawayanagi.web.fc2.com/

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