1970s-1990s The Japanese Avant-garde

[gius]

^ really cool structures

it's a mesh with padding ?
so the filling must show through to the outside of the fabric..

 

[fashion.fashoff]

the mesh is dark and closely knitted enough not to let the padding show through. not a lot of padding, just enough to give the garments kind of an unusual look. i tried to take a closeup of the fabric:

 

[softgrey]

fashoff...
i am really curious what mag those 1978 images are from...
can you please let us know?...
thanks in advance...
and thanks for the pics...




runner...that first pic in post #454 make me want to cut my hair off!!!
i had that exact hair cut in the mid 80's...
...
it was and still is one of my fave hairstyles...
*sigh*

 

[fashion.fashoff]

softgrey,
the 1978 pics are from vogue italia march 1978

 

[user500]

six magazine

scans from kameyacco.blog.ocn.ne.jp

 

[user500]

same source like above

 

[user500]

same source...

 

[user500]

...........

 

[gius]

the fitted long dress with the conical bra so gaultier wasn't the only one who did that.. ^^

 

[user500]

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i guess this is not all cdg clothing but from other designers as well. the picture left to this shows j.p. gaultier written next to the year.

 

[bobble-bee]

User500 thank you so so much for those Six images!!!

 

[Proximity]

i'm loving this thread, & it was really great to see those images from Six, they all look fantastic.

i only have (& have seen) one issue which was given to me in Browns when i was 16, i still treasure it.

scan of the Jane Withers, "Black: The Zero Option," article from the Face, March 1987. photographs by Peter Lindbergh, models - Veronica Webb & Jenny Howarth.
source: scanned by me.

 

[Proximity]

Comme des Garcons from 1986/1987 (?), photograph by Martin Brading, model - Naomi Campbell.
source: scanned by me.

fawn cotton draped bubble skirt, £300, grey cotton polo-neck sweater, £180, cotton stockings, £55, & grey suede ghilie shoes, £145, all by Commes des Garcons

 

[Proximity]

from SIX number 3/1989, "Sixth Sense". ft. photography by Max Vadukul, Pierre Boucher, & Peter Lindbergh.
source: crappy photos by me (because it's A3 in size & far too big to get on my scanner).

 

[user500]

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thank you, proximity!

extra thanks for the article. a photo of young rei kawakubo!
please tell me: those SIX magazine, is it a thick magazine with many pages or only some and is it only photos or text as well?

 

[Proximity]

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thank you, proximity!

extra thanks for the article. a photo of young rei kawakubo!
please tell me: those SIX magazine, is it a thick magazine with many pages or only some and is it only photos or text as well?

obviously i can only speak about the one i have (issue 3) - size wise it's almost 12 x 16", 120 pages & what it's printed on is quite thick, almost closer to card than paper.

it's mostly images - photos, collages, with some lines of text running through the collage pieces. i'll try & get around to transcribing the text in a bit (before i put it away again). it's like a prose piece.

 

[Proximity]

from Six, Number 3/1989, "Sixth Sense"

Pierre Boucher - Frieze

Movement - Checkerboard
- Water
- Light
- Clouds
- Shoes
- Stars

Azzedine Alaia - Cooking
Comme des Garcons - Comme des Garcons
- Comme des Garcons Noir
- Francesco Clemente for Comme des Garcons Homme Plus

Advertisements - Q.P.Co.,Ltd.
- Suntory Limited
- Japan Tobacco Inc.

PUBLISHER/DIRECTOR - Comme des Garcons Co., Ltd.

EDITOR - Atsuko Kozasu

ART DIRECTOR - Tsuguya Inoue
- Beans Co., Ltd.

PHOTOGRAPHERS - Pierre Boucher, Richard Dumas, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Peter Lindbergh, Max Vadukul

CONTRIBUTERS - Yannick Harrouet, Julian d'Ys, Stephane Marais, Thierry Mauduit, Nicoletta Santoro, Mako Yamazaki

over 32 pages of collages, the collages illustrate the line/lines of text on that page.

Drifting in space, the thought awaits the call to be

As another day breaks & a star falls, a child is born

But man is reborn when he discovers his spiritual self;
then comes slow germination of the thought within

It grows, as the breath of life, rousing the heavy stature of
inert matter, lightening & lifting the body into action...

Until, machine-like, it moves of its own accord: Wherever
intelligence seeks, the pure elements of meaning shine revealed

Use polishes the sharp point of intelligence; as an arrow,
it speeds direct through the night...

Straight on, through the encompassing gloom & unknown dangers,
above & beyond the great void itself...

...& music, like an ever-recurring gift, swells & fills the air

From the common stuff of earth all things are made;
but the very perfection of pure form is dazzling to the eyes of its creator

Those who worship idols come to resemble them: so with us, if we make a machine our
idol, we shall become machines.

The means man harnessed for his ends will cheat him of realisation, & bring him down

The truths of discovery & the fruits of labour will be lost
in the crowd & dissipated in the surge of a great current

But for the man who labours to escape
the common shackles there is this reward:-

He will become the master of his chariot & guide it to more spacious days,
towards that city of the future to be built on plans of justice

And, when death comes & he has left his body on these shores

He will enter the home fashioned by his own hands,
while on earth - a dwelling place in eternity

the rest of Six #3 is pretty much text free, just photo credits & info.

 

[fashion.fashoff]

2 images of the y's boutique in tokyo, completed dec. 1980.

imo striking and fresh even 28 years later (and still better than a lot of new boutique designs)

pix by me (from the book "1981 annual of commercial space designs in japan")

 

[BerlinRocks]

* just went to heaven *

thanks so much user500, promixity for Six magazine ... I remember looking for it ... I even think I asked about it onto tfs ...

and fash.off i think exactly the same ... really fresh shop display ... it could be from today that noone would notice it !

 

[fashion.fashoff]

this is really cool: yohji yamamoto fall 1985 runway video
www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=136616

you have to download their special plugin to watch the video but it is safe (and very much worth it to see the video)