Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851779922 ISBN 13: 9781851779925

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2020

Synopsis

The rich, complex, and beautiful kimono

The kimono—worn by women, men, and children—is the ultimate signifier of Japan: revered withinthe country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exoticfascination. Often viewed as a simple, unchanging garment, the kimono has been equated with“tradition” and seen as something static and timeless. This book, published to accompany a majorexhibition at the V&A, London, presents the kimono as dynamic and fashionable, and explores itssignificance in historical and contemporary contexts, both in Japan and in the West. Beautifully illustrated,it includes more than 200 kimono from collections at the V&A and around the world, as well asexamples of the ways in which they have been represented in paintings, prints, and photographs, andinterpreted more recently in popular culture and fashion, from Björk to David Bowie, John Galliano toIssey Miyake.
 

About this title

About the Author

Anna Jackson is keeper of the Asian department at the V&A.
 

Review

A visual feast [and] wide-ranging and valuable survey of kimono as a reflection of Japanese history and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1851779922
• ISBN 13: 9781851779925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Jackson Anna