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Shortlisted for the Textile Society of America's R.L. Shep Award 2020.
The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and timeless, but this book counters that conception, presenting the kimono as highly dynamic and fashionable dress. The cultural and sartorial significance of the kimono is explored in historical and contemporary contexts, both in Japan and the West, where its impact on clothing styles has been felt since the seventeenth century. Beautifully illustrated, the book features over 250 kimono and kimono-inspired garments from the V&A and collections around the world, revealing its sartorial influence on pop stars from David Bowie to Bjoerk and examining the ways in which fashion designers such as Issey Miyake, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen have reworked its legacy.
Contents
Foreword, Tristram Hunt
Introduction: Kimono, Kyoto to Catwalk, Anna Jackson
Kimono in Japan
Status, Style and Seduction, Anna Jackson
Creation and Commerce, Anna Jackson and Iwao Nagasaki
Clothed in Splendour: Bridal Kimono from the Edo Period to the Present Day, Masami Yamada
Picturing Fashion in Edo-Period Japan, Masami Yamada
Fashion for the Foreign
A Taste for the Exotic: Foreign Textiles and Japanese Dress, Anna Jackson
The 'Nippon Kimono' Voyages to Europe, Yuzuruha Oyama
Interwoven Gowns: A Tale of Global Trade, Ariane Fennetaux
Geographically Confused, but Familiarly Exotic: The Influence of Kimono in Seventeenth-Century England, Susan North
Shifting Styles
Fashioning Modernity in Japan, Anna Jackson
The 'Kimono Craze': From Exoticism to Fashionability, Elizabeth Kramer and Akiko Savas
Picturing Kimono in Britain, Europe and America, Elizabeth Kramer
Radical Restructure: The Impact of Kimono, Akiko Fukai
Kimono as Costume
Kimono Codified: Uniform for the Nation, Josephine Rout
Geisha: Perpetuating the Kimono Mystique, Lesley Downer
Kimono Rental, Tourism and Sartorial Expression, Elizabeth Kramer
Behind the Screen: Kimono as Costume, Josephine Rout
Kimono Reinvention
Kimono Reborn, Rupert Faulkner
Moriguchi Kunihiko, Anna Jackson
Kikuchi Nobuko: Stylish Rebellion, Kohka Yoshimura
Kimono Transformation
Kimono Dreams, Claire Wilcox
Statement Piece: The Kimono Jacket Trend, Elizabeth Kramer
Kimono Revolution, Sheila Cliffe
Jotaro Saito, Anna Jackson
From Edo to Instagram: Japanese Fashion, Josephine Rout
