![]() ![]() It will also serve as the site for a diverse array of programs, talks and design charrettes. This multipurpose lab will function as a workshop, studio space and classroom, showcasing current faculty and student work in process, representative of a local design ethos made up of critical design, critical making and critical inquiry. The content of the exhibition will be activated through a number of collaborations and programs, including a creative research laboratory-conceived and programmed by Material Matters from Emily Carr University of Art + Design-embedded within the exhibition space. The exhibition is comprised of three thematic sections: Material Futures, which includes work that features technological and scientific innovations in materials research Aesthetic Prophesies, which highlights designers’ fusion of cultural traditions with speculative creations and Responsible Visions, which investigates how designers are incorporating adaptive reuse and upcycling into their explorations. Rather than presenting retrofuturist visions that recycle the space age imagery of the 1960s and 70s, these designers are proposing new trajectories and new possibilities for the near future. All of the designers in Fashion Fictions occupy these liminal spaces, using fashion as a means to unite seemingly disparate sentiments and to propose new possibilities for aesthetics, bodily forms and, more ambitiously, how we exist in the world.ĭrawing on various cultural traditions, science fiction, technology, and an interest in the natural world and sustainability, designers invent fashion objects that act as visual manifestations of new realities and celebrations of hybrid identities. The title of the exhibition is drawn from artist and technologist Julian Bleecker’s influential essay “Design Fiction” (2009) in which he extends the term first coined by critic and theorist Bruce Sterling to argue that the most innovative, transformative work is produced in the spaces between fact and fiction, the present and the near future, and the scientific and the fantastical. International in scope, the exhibition explores the increasing influence of research-based, materially driven practices on the global fashion scene, while acknowledging the proliferation of creative practices that challenge the aesthetic, material and technological conventions of fashion. Suzy Menkes is a British journalist and fashion critic.Fashion Fictions surveys experimental design practices that exist at the intersection of fashion and other modes of cultural production. Jun Takahashi is the founder of UNDERCOVER, a label he started in 1990. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 photographs and in-depth essays by fashion writers, curators, and colleagues, this book gives readers first time access into Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER, one of the most desired and multidimensional clothing lines in contemporary fashion. ![]() The violent rending and hasty reassembly that characterized his early work, its calculated imperfections and sutured seams, have given way to collections that he himself now calls "sexy and feminine." UNDERCOVER is insightfully curated with fashion-filled chapters devoted to Takahashi’s sketches, graphic work, collaborations, and most innovative designs to date. But Takahashi would blaze an entirely different path to legend and notoriety. Hailing from Gunma Prefecture like his friend NIGO® of *A Bathing Ape®, Takahashi’s long association with the undisputed king of Ura-Harajuku in the early 1990s is now the stuff of local fashion lore. A fixture of the Paris collections for more than ten years-plus seventeen uninterrupted seasons in Tokyo prior to that-Takahashi’s life’s work confirms a maturation from self-conscious artifice and rebel pastiche to a steely, withering elegance all his own. While not quite populist, his generative influences are instead romantic-even gothic. Takahashi Jun’s fashion is not born out of an excessively intellectualized agenda. The first comprehensive book on the work of Jun Takahashi of UNDERCOVER, an icon of Harajuku streetwear and the presumptive heir to the heavy mantle of Japanese deconstruction. Undercover Author Jun Takahashi, Foreword by Suzy Menkes
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