Introduction
Dress (detail)
A/W 2022.
©The Kyoto Costume Institute
photo: Koroda Takeru.
LOVE
2018
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
©YOKOYAMA Nami, 2024
Dressing is a universal human activity. The clothes that we wear embody or conceal our internal desires, and they can reveal those desires along with our longings, our passions, and the conflicts and contradictions that we face. Fashion has a role as a receptacle for ‘Love’: the passions and aspirations of the wearer. Driven by those emotions, we may be motivated to wear something that we like, be inspired by someone’s look, want to be ourselves, or just want to lose ourselves. Fashion opens up a colourful world, like a kaleidoscope.
This exhibition is based on clothes and other fashion items from The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) ’s collection of costume from the eighteenth century to the present day. In conjunction with art that throws light on fundamental human drives and instincts, the exhibits encourage us to ponder the various forms of ‘Love’ that can be seen in relation to fashion. Through this exhibition, we gain an opportunity to think about and reevaluate what it means for humans to wear clothes.
Exhibitors and artists (designers of works exhibited at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery listed in parentheses)
Fashion: Alexander McQueen (Alexander McQueen), Balenciaga (Cristóbal Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia), Bottega Veneta (Daniel Lee), Céline (Phoebe Philo), Chanel (Karl Lagerfeld), Christian Dior (Christian Dior, John Galliano), Comme des Garçons (Kawakubo Rei), Comme des Garçons Homme Plus (Kawakubo Rei), Gaultier Paris by sacai (Jean-Paul Gaultier, Abe Chitose), Givenchy (Alexander McQueen), Helmut Lang (Helmut Lang), House of Worth (Jean-Philippe Worth), J. C. de Castelbajac (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac), Jil Sander (Raf Simons), Junya Watanabe (Watanabe Junya), Kimhēkim (Kiminte Kimhēkim), Loewe (Jonathan Anderson), Mame Kurogouchi (Kurogouchi Maiko), Maison Margiela (John Galliano), Nensi Dojaka (Nensi Dojaka), Noir Kei Ninomiya (Ninomiya Kei), Noritaka Tatehana (Tatehana Noritaka), Pierre Balmain (Pierre Balmain), Prada (Miuccia Prada), Ryunosukeokazaki (Okazaki Ryunosuke), Somarta (Hirokawa Tamae), Stella McCartney (Stella McCartney), Thierry Mugler (Thierry Mugler), Tomo Koizumi (Koizumi Tomotaka), Viktor&Rolf (Viktor Horsting, Rolf Snoeren), Yohji Yamamoto (Yamamoto Yohji), YoshioKubo (Kubo Yoshio) and more.
Art: Sylvie Fleury, Harada Yuki, AKI INOMATA, Kasahara Emiko, Matsukawa Tomona, Odani Motohiko, Sawada Tomoko, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yokoyama Nami
