/fa/ - Fashion

>>6451971
well whats clearly a huge theme in rei's work -- maybe its most central theme -- is imperfection & deconstruction. those were certainly among the qualities which distinguished her most at the beginning of her career (in ways positive & negative both) and are also rlly explicit even in what i just posted. the shirt misbuttoned, the shoulder ripped, the waistcoat designed to hang out of the jacket like u just threw it on, the misshapen body etc. etc. thats so cool that even tho rei so rarely does interviews or speaks out publicly about she wants to accomplish w/ her clothes u can see these same ideas repeated over and over and over again throughout d e c a d e s. i read some quote in an introduction to this photo anthology of her work i was looking at and (im gonna misquote it) it was smth like:

"the logic of her work is impeccable, if not always easy to follow."

and i might disagree w/ the second half. i would cautiously say that her context -- post-war japan -- makes its weight pretty plain in her work, like it does in yohji's, and like it does in that entire generation of artists & writers, etc. u can find deconstruction & abstraction in a lot of reactionary movements. whats rlly interesting is the contrast between her and yohji, where yohji is so vested in the craft & japanese artistic traditions and rei is so conceptual & ready 2 destroy her industrial looms for cooler knitwear or w/e. p.s. for u: http://www.artnews.com/2013/01/09/japans-postwar-art-wave/

ive been sitting in the library looking at cdg books for the last week & i wanted 2 talk about it idc :---)

>tfw no wardrobe stacked w/ cdg
good thing i dont know this feel :---------------)