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Made in Japan, profession Fashion Designer
The "Made in Japan" show is centered on the work of the new generation of Japanese fashion designers, programmed until June 17 at the Utrecht Centraal Museum. Of these young designers, only Junya Watanabe has worked at an international level (perhaps due to the opportunity offered to him by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons to develop his own label within her house).
But, what is so special about these young Japanese? They went to Paris in the early 80s at the time when Kenzo and Issey Miyake had already opened their own boutique a few years earlier. Japanese fashion had great success in 1981 when Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto presented their own lineups in Paris, proposing that sober black, those long, freely-floating dresses and flat shoes: a new way of adhering to the body that, with very sought-after fabrics, has represented a great source of inspiration for much western fashion.
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