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That combination is proving irresistible to creative types on the lookout for a collaborator who is utterly commercial without sacrificing cool. Japanese design icon Takashi Murakami and artists from Brooklyn to Hong Kong have designed toys sold by Kidrobot. Its vinyl characters have sported clothing by Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander, and New York City's Barneys sells an exclusive line of Kidrobot sneakers...
These were elegant renditions of fashion's sober new mood. But some designers took the trend to an extreme, covering models' heads with paper-bag-like scarves, as the Japanese designer Jun Takashi did at Undercover, or at the show of Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf, shielding faces with fencing masks...
...most important artists. The exhibition is long overdue not just because it highlights his consistently excellent work, but because it showcases a somewhat neglected version of modern Japanese art?somber, contemplative, melancholy and utterly different from the fun but shallow Day-Glo Superflat school popularized by neopop superstar Takashi Murakami and his look-alike minions...
Directed by Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, and Chan-wook Park
...Dumplings,” by Hong Kong director Fruit Chan, horrifies by suggesting its premise—a woman eating babies—is entirely realistic. The Korean film by director Chan-wook Park, “Cut,” is black comedy descending into madness. Japanese director Takashi Miike directs “Box,” a delirious psychological nightmare. They all succeed brilliantly in extraordinarily different ways...