Reblog: March 19, 2022. JUNYA WATANABE. FALL 2022 - TOKYO
"Junya Watanabe's monozukuri techniques continue on after nearly two decades of showing at Paris Fashion week, debuting in 1993 for his Tokyo showing. The illusive and very private Japanese designer has been constant in his reworking popular culture influences as a template for his creative designs, through a Japanese perspective of borrowing, and I say this in the most respectful manner, while claiming concepts and ideas as their own. An ingrained trait to which the Japanese have honed and mastered after hundred of years of practice, when Ch'an Buddhist masters from China arrived onto Japan in the 4th Century, offering calligraphy, art and a Buddhist school of thought that had branched off from esoteric Buddhism, that we now know as Zen Buddhism. Distantly a Japanese affair, yet it had originated from afar. And it is this Japanese word monozukuri, which, on the many rare occasions he has been interviewed, Watanabe has emphasized, as a benchmark for his work, which is made up of two Japanese phrases, “thing” (mono) and “to grow” (zukuri). In similarity, it would be the western term/s evolve, adjust or adapt in being creative..."
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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/03/junya-watanabe-fall-2022-tokyo.html
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