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Tag Archives: fashion
Book Announcement: Designing Modern Japan
Designing Modern Japan Sarah Teasley From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to avant-garde fashion and street subcultures. But these portrayals overlook the creativity, generosity and sheer … Continue reading
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Tagged art, book announcement, books, Design, fashion, industry, modern, modern Japan
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Fun Link Friday: Halloween costumes in Tokyo
Halloween has really become a much bigger event in Japan in recent years. The Omotesando Halloween Pumpkin Parade and the Magic of Halloween Parade in Tokyo showcase the growing enthusiasm for getting into the Halloween spirit, or at least making … Continue reading
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Tagged cosplay, costumes, fashion, halloween, halloween parade, parades, Tokyo, TokyoFashion
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Fun Link Friday: All About Netsuke
For the kogei- and fashion lovers, Collectors Weekly interviewed Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) director Christine Drosse back in 2011 about netsuke. The link includes links to LACMA’s online collections of Edo- and Meiji Period netsuke as well as to the International … Continue reading
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Tagged art, collectors weekly, craft, Edo period, fashion, fun link friday, kogei, LACMA, Meiji period, Netsuke, 根付け
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Fun Link Friday: War Kimono
Cranes, carp, cherry blossoms…Zero fighters? I guarantee you haven’t seen kimono motifs like these before! Wolfgang Ruf of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, collects rare wartime kimono from roughly 1894-1942 with soliders, weapons, and military vehicles. Today’s fun link, “Kimonos reveal Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged fashion, fun link friday, history, Japan, Japanese art, kimono, Russo-Japanese War, Swissinfo, Switzerland, war, wartime motifs, Wolfgang Ruf, WWII
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Fun Link Friday: Japanese street fashion
Being a girl of neither the height nor shape for clothing in Japan, I have never known much of anything about contemporary fashion there, not even the everyday looks. And the more extreme things? Well, I’m not one for standing … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, fashion, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese culture, street fashion
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