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...where fashion is taken as seriously as politics, Junya Watanabe's collections spark more scrutiny than the latest governmental bailout plan. Maybe it's because while the parliament mires the country in the same old, same old, Watanabe and the avant-garde designer pack he runs with--Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo--make Japan, and design aficionados worldwide, try to envision what is to come...
...garage in the backstreets of Tokyo's trendy Harajuku area. Today, it's a fashion empire stretching from Hokkaido to Kyushu. Takahashi has won just about every fashion award Japan can offer (last year he captured the prestigious Mainichi prize normally reserved for establishment figures like Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe). Across the country, his fans faithfully line up outside his 31 boutiques, eager for the opportunity to buy a $2,500 dress or a $30 pair of socks. But to maintain his momentum, Takahashi must branch out into upscale markets overseas. His grand plan: by early next year, Takahashi...
...much-eulogized Return To The Source trance party propelled him to the top of the mid-'90s Eurotrance explosion, prompting tours of major rave festivals like the U.K.'s Big Love and Tribal Gathering and Germany's Love Parade. His arrival was confirmed in 1997, when leading designer Issey Miyake took him on as music director for his Paris and Tokyo shows, and again in 2000 when Versace hired him for its own Tokyo catwalks...
...Corsets, An Absolute Necessity," or the male stockings with fake calf muscles, but many of the body-distorting items in this exhibition are recent fashion misstatements. Categorized by anatomy--feet, waist, chest--this show is most surprising not when comparing Victorian support garments to the 2000 Issey Miyake bustier (above) but in its cross-cultural references. The Mongo women of Zaire, for example, wore a belt that looks like the tail of a Playboy Bunny...
Then there's multifunctionality, the watchword of '00s design. Rashid didn't invent it, but he has pushed it. "Every new object should replace three," he says. His packaging for an Issey Miyake perfume was a corrugated polypropylene envelope that could double as a toiletries purse; his Bozart children's chair is also a toy box; and his Q Chaise converts from a table to a chair-and-footrest and then to a daybed...