The lower gallery space is divided into four themed sections: In Praise of Shadows, Flatness, Tradition and Innovation, and Cool Japan, while the upper level houses dedicated spaces for each designer.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to now. Japanese designers made an enormous impact on world couture in the late 20th century. Visionaries such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion, challenged established Western notions of beauty, and turned fashion very firmly into art. Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno- couturier Junya Watanabe also features in the exhibition, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara, Matohu and Mintdesigns. Future Beauty opens at Barbican Art Gallery on 15 October 2010. via

Photographs by Lyndon Douglas.

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