Re-Fashioning Kimono: How to Make ‘Traditional’ Clothes for Postmodern Japan

New Voices in Japanese Studies

Jenny Hall¹ 

[1] Monash University ;

关键词: aesthetics;    culture;    contemporary;    fashion;    kimono;    textiles;    tradition;    sensory ethnography;    wafuku;   

DOI  :  10.21159/nvjs.07.04

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

It is difficult to ride a bicycle or drive a car while wearing a kimono. Kimono are not considered suitable for contemporary life in Japan, and because of this, there is a pervading view that the Japanese traditional textile industry is in decline. However, Japanese designers and consumers are redefining Japanese clothing (wafuku) while retaining its ‘traditional’ image. This project investigates how the contemporary reinvention of Japanese clothing embodies the process by which tradition and modernity interact, and helps us understand how new designs are a vehicle for designers’ and consumers’ expressions of Japanese culture.

【 授权许可】

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