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CREATIVE EXPLORER Petra Famlerova
STYLE PERIOD 1980 AND THE JAPANESE 3 When the West Wore East: Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and The Rise of the Japanese Avant-Garde in Fashion The garments shown by Kawakubo and Yamamoto in Paris represented a departure from the Western conventions of fashion design, challenging long held notions of gender and beauty. In fact, their designs often eschewed tailoring that accentuated the female form in favor of enshrouding layers of loose-fitting fabric, abstract shaping and asymmetric hemlines. Preferring a monochromatic style, these garments were often a solid black and were constructed from roughly textured fabrics giving the allusion of tearing or weathering.
BEAUTY IN THE IMPERFECT In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete�. Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.
KARASUZOKU MEMBERS OF THE CROW TRIBE The karasu-zoku (crow tribe) style, in which women dress all in black from head to toe, comes into fashion. Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto debut their Paris collections. It was a contrast to power suits and evening dresses, a revelation that fashion can be more then sex, glam, business and commerce. The focus was on the intelectual chic. This new aesthetics of poverty was a reaction on social classes, high unemployment and the politics in Japan.
Yo-landi Visser Yo-Landi Visser is a singer, songwriter and an actress, best known as the front-woman of the South African Zef-Rave-Rapper band, ‘Die Antwoord’. In 2008, she formed the band with her then partner Ninja and producer DJ Hi-Tek. In 2009, in an attempt to reflect her inner feelings on to her outer image, she asked Ninja to cut off the sides of her hair and then bleached her hair and eyebrows white. She did this to establish herself proudly as an outsider.
Growing up within a conservative Afrikaans society, she became very rebellious as a child, often getting into fistfights. Yo-Landi Visser used to hate to be told what she should do, even by her parents, and never adhered to the accepted social norms. Her rebellious nature later reflected into her music, and made her an unlikely pop-culture icon.
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