With Kimono Style, the Metropolitan Museum of Art aims to shed light on the significant sartorial connections between Japanese kimonos and Western garments inspired by them, which are just as prevalent today as they were 100 or even 200 years ago:
Fashion, at its best, is art in motion. The body becomes a canvas, the garment transforming into a gallery-worthy work of art that makes yousomething. This sensation is on full display in the Japanese galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where one of its newest exhibits,Now through February 20, 2023, visitors can view selected works from the John C.
Flash forward to the 19th century, when nearly every popular Japanese artform at the time — from ceramics to woodblock prints — was exported to Europe and regularly spotlighted at the world expositions. Many Western couturiers, particularly those in Paris, came across the woodblock prints on kimonos, which led them to begin studying the structure of the garment itself.
The exhibition features several early examples of Yokohamas; next to one is a coat produced by Takashimaya, a leading department store originally established as a kimono shop in Kyoto.
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