📗 Libro en inglés KIMONO

Beautifully illustrated Anna Jackson s Kimono includes more than 200 kimono from collections at the V&A and around the world as well as examples of the ways in which they have been represented in paintings prints and photographs and interpreted in popular culture and fashion from Björk to David Bowie John Galliano to Issey Miyake The kimono worn by women men and children is the ultimate signifier of Japan revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination Often viewed as a simple unchanging garment the kimono has been equated with tradition and seen as something static and timeless This book published to accompany a major exhibition at the V&A London presents the kimono as dynamic and fashionable and explores its significance in historical and contemporary contexts both in Japan and in the West The kimono cannot simply belong to Japan or it will disappear This is not a ceremonial garment It s fashion it always has been And fashion is for everybody Vogue Jataro Saito