Legendary Japanese Designers: Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, and Issey Miyake

The designer, Rei kawakubo, was borin in 1942.

Her major in art and literature. Her clothes, always has radical experiments in fabric & form, closer like art form and sculpture than to the traditional view of fashion as body packaging. She doesn’t follow the traditional clothing feature, and go for deconstruction. Her designs is always be innovative and creative using likes of holes, applying very real modernist stylizing.

She works in fabric company, and she works as stylist before as designer. The garments she created have been caught in a head on collision, some people would think is it broken down? Intentional? And reassembled in order to rise from ashes. She’s the pioneer of approaching the complete anti-thesis of everything else seen on fashion week. Those deconstruction garments, meticulously reassembled according to their own rules, receive it, and spirit it out.

The designer, Yohji Yamamoto, was born in 1943,

He spent his academic career majoring in Law and his mother worked in a clothing shop. He likes black color and design style is always tend to mutual. He takes inspiration from emotional anger in his mind. He can move effortlessly from the task of making a simple white shirt to the complex cutting of an evening dress. In his fashion world, he has constructed new approach to clothing in the post-industrial to 20th century world.

Issey Miyake was born in 1938 in Hiroshima Japan, and he is a Japanese fashion designer.

He is best known for his technology-driven clothing designs for men and women, exhibitions, and fragrances. In his work, he personifies the creative dynamism of modern art. He studied graphics design at Tokyo’s Tama Art University.

Miyake clothes are Japanese in origin, Western in spirit and,as an apprentice in Paris in the mid 1960s’, he realized that what was supposed to be disadvantages. Once he said that “My lack of western heritage-could really advantage me. I had nowhere to go but forward.”

His clothing style are famous for A.P.C (a piece of clothing) and a scissor to make clothes with cutting edge of fashion design ever since drawing from the wellsprings of Japanese cultural tradition. His work combines refined craftsmanship with ceaseless experimentation of fabric form. The final design result is always come out ancient, contemporary, and futurist all at once time. Even Apple CEO Steven Jobs once wore his signature black mock turtle neck by the designer, Issey Miyake.

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