Kimono Style: EDO Traditions to Modern Design Monika Bincsik

Kimono Style: EDO Traditions to Modern Design

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Kimono Style: EDO Traditions to Modern Design
Author
Monika Bincsik
ISBN
9781588397522
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. Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Monika BincsikPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New YorkPublished: 06/28/2022ISBN: 9781588397522Pages: 176
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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Monika Bincsik
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 06/28/2022
ISBN: 9781588397522
Pages: 176
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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Monika Bincsik
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 06/28/2022
ISBN: 9781588397522
Pages: 176