Love Fashion: In Search of Myself at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Dressing is a universal human activity. The clothes that we wear embody or conceal our internal desires, and they can reveal those desires along with our longings, our passions, and the conflicts and contradictions that we face. Fashion has a role as a receptacle for ‘Love’: the passions and aspirations of the wearer. Driven by those emotions, we may be motivated to wear something that we like, be inspired by someone’s look, want to be ourselves, or just want to lose ourselves. It is an expansive kaleidoscopic world of colour.
Image: Corset, c.1870, America?
Image above: Balenciaga /Cristóbal Balenciaga, Evening dress, Winter 1951.
Both images: ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama.
In Love Fashion: In Search of Myself at the The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, drawn primarily from the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, they consider various forms of ‘LOVE’ as it relates to fashion along with artworks that shed light on the fundamental drives and instincts of human beings and other living things. Viewers will have a chance to reconsider what it means to wear clothes.
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Image above: Balenciaga /Cristóbal Balenciaga, Evening dress, Winter 1951.
Both images: ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama.
In Love Fashion: In Search of Myself at the The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, drawn primarily from the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, they consider various forms of ‘LOVE’ as it relates to fashion along with artworks that shed light on the fundamental drives and instincts of human beings and other living things. Viewers will have a chance to reconsider what it means to wear clothes.
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We are proud to be a subscriber-funded publication with members in 185 countries. We know our readership is passionate about textiles, so we invite you to help us preserve and promote the stories, memories, and histories that fabric holds. Your support allows us to publish our magazine, and also ‘what's on’ information, and subscription interviews, reviews, and long-read articles in our online blog.
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