1970s-1990s The Japanese Avant-garde

[user500]

you are welcome!

there is one more collection video:

cdg a/w 92-93

 

[user500]

this channel has also added many videos of issey miyake and matsuda collections!

 

[user500]

yohji yamamoto a/w 95-96

 

[user500]

 

[fashion.fashoff]

the met has a great search feature that lets you search its collections. there are lots of early cdg, yohji, and issey. here are comme des garçons highlights all from 1982-1984

all photos from metropolitan museum of art

 

[fashion.fashoff]

all photos from metropolitan museum of art

 

[fashion.fashoff]

all photos from metropolitan museum of art

 

[fashion.fashoff]

all photos from metropolitan museum of art

 

[fashion.fashoff]

all photos from metropolitan museum of art

 

[fashion.fashoff]

most of the 1983 pieces have the tricot comme des garcons label. the others use either the long white label with black printing or the black label with gold stitching.

one surprise was the fuchsia shirt from 1983...i think it is a misconception that Rei ONLY used a monochrome palette during this period.

 

[fashion.fashoff]

issey miyake circa f/w 1983, mostly different wool knits, but there are some bands of black monkey (?) fur alongside some of the grey areas

pics by me

 

[eugenius]

Found on National Geographic's website.

"A dress from Japanese designer Issey Miyake's A-POC collection (short for A Piece Of Cloth) is woven into fabric then liberated by cutting along the lines, as shown by Alvin Ailey dancer...'The technological revolution is responsbile for A POC," says Miyake. "But my designs cannot exist without the person hidden behind the cloth.' "

 

[runner]

rei kawakubo as a photographer

"quartet" from 1981



goo.ne (courtesy latifa)

 

[runner]

from 1981
rei (in the right) after the paris debut show

my scan

 

[runner]

CdG S/S 83

my scan

 

[fashion.fashoff]

this is a wool cardigan from circa 1981. the guy i bought it from used to be the womenswear buyer at Bendel's (the first U.S. store to start carrying CDG) and said it was given to him as a gift after that first show in Paris, which I think was in Oct. 1981. it has intentional holes all over it, which was one of the iconic features of Rei's first Paris collections and led to critics calling her clothes "Hiroshima chic" etc.

pix by me

 

[MissMagAddict]

Eye of the Artists: Issey Miyake's Forms of Invention
US Vogue October 1988
Photographer: Irving Penn


source | scanned by justaguy

 

[surver]

anyone have full collection images of cdg's aw94 (the first boiled wool series)? please pm me. thanks!!!

 

[Scott]

i love how everything in this thread still looks so utterly relevant and timeless.

 

[Melisande]

So true. I can still wear my mom's Yohji from the eighties and it still looks really modern...not just not dated, but fresh and modern. Love it.