Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transcience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include assymetry, asperity, roughness or irregularity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. Hand… Continue reading Goooo….. Wabi Sabi
Category: Travel
Feel and Think
It's understandable if you've come on to the blog in recent weeks and just been plain CONFUUUUUSED. The names of designers that I saw at Tokyo Fashion Week aren't exactly household or internationally renowned (yet). If any of you saw the excellent 'Future Beauty' exhibition at the Barbican you might have been wondering what was… Continue reading Feel and Think
Escaping into Sacai
In addition to checking out the new new gen of Tokyo fashion, it was impossible to forget the new gen – as in the generation post Comme/Yohji/Issey, designers who have more than likely come out of the design studios of the aforementioned big three with a belt of experience to go it alone. Chitose Abe… Continue reading Escaping into Sacai
Unreal Reality
There were many high notes at Tokyo Fashion Week but the superhigh note didn't come until the double whammy show of Anrealage and Mintdesigns. You'd think in a joint show, there might be one designer that shows up the other but both were equally strong warranting one post here for Anrealage and another for Mintdesigns… Continue reading Unreal Reality