Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design (Paperback)

Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design By Monika Bincsik, Karen van Godtsenhoven (Contributions by), Masanao Arai (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Monika Bincsik, Karen van Godtsenhoven (Contributions by), Masanao Arai (Contributions by)
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The untold modern history of the Japanese kimono and its dynamic relationship to Western culture

Japan’s engagement with Western clothing, culture, and art in the mid-nineteenth century transformed the traditional kimono and began a cross-cultural sartorial dialogue that continues to this day. This publication explores the kimono’s fascinating modern history and its notable influence on Western fashion. Initially signaling the wearer’s social position, marital status, age, and wealth, older kimono designs gave way to the demands of modernized and democratized twentieth-century lifestyles as well as the preferences of the emancipated “new woman.” Conversely, inspiration from the kimono’s silhouette liberated Western designers such as Paul Poiret and Madeline Vionnet from traditional European tailoring. Juxtaposing never-before-published Japanese textiles from the John C. Weber Collection with Western couture, this book places the kimono on the stage of global fashion history.
 
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
 
Exhibition Schedule:
 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(June 7, 2022–February 20, 2023)

About the Author


Monika Bincsik is the Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts in the Asian Art Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Karen Van Godtsenhoven is an independent curator based in Belgium. Arai Masanao is a textile historian based in Japan.
 

Praise For…


Kimono Style provides an exemplary exploration of cultural interactions and of clothing as representative of mutually influential modernization processes at work both in Japan and the West.”—L. A. Makela, Choice

Product Details
ISBN: 9781588397522
ISBN-10: 1588397521
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publication Date: June 28th, 2022
Pages: 176
Language: English