print email comment close Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto: Japanese Fashion in the Twentieth Century URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jafa/hd_jafa.htm Description: "Placing great emphasis on an admiration for traditional Japanese art as well as the forms and ideologies of modernism via channels of fiber technology, visual imagery, and three-dimensional sculpture, Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto can be credited with the creation of the Japanese aesthetic in global fashion." Features an introduction to modern high-fashion Japanese design and images of garments by these fashion designers. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library of Congress Subject Headings: Fashion -- Japan Fashion designers LII Database Information: Record 9565 created by Maria Brandt on 07/09/2005 Last modification on 07/11/2005 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 02/27/2007 Charlotte Bagby on 05/02/2006 Published: 07/09/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/9565