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Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2024 Image Credits: Launchmetrics/Spotlight

disclaimer: this is long as hell on the blog, if you really intend to read it, paste it onto Word so you can read it. i can't fix the font on the post because my blog is being a jerk to me. it's a journal excerpt i've just typed up. I was reading the comments in the other post and I'm glad we all share a mutual obsession fascination with asians! I had my Columbia interview some days ago and the dude interviewer (asian, taiwanese, majored in east Asian studies + going into fashion = yeah…

Under no pretext should you miss Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at Barbican Art Gallery. Curated by the Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute…

Poster in white ground, with model wearing knit clothing and hood over face.

Dress, Issey Miyake (Japanese, born 1938), polyester, Japanese

Female model with legs spread apart and squatting slightly in gold knife-pleated, turtleneck dress with red knife-pleated coat extended by model's open arms.

Karasu Zoku (烏族) was a Japanese movement during the 1980s that consisted of wearing all-black designer outfits. While similar fashion trends are still around, the term is no longer used due to the base association with violent gangs around the height of its popularity, and "Mode fashion" (モードファッション) is used instead. Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto presented their works at the Paris Collection in the spring and summer of 1982, giving the fashion world a “black impact”. It was evaluated by…

Issey Miyake Spring 1995 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.