Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But what has happened in the years since then? Lavishly[...]

Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and s[...]

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the my[...]

Yuniya Kawamuras Modeologi är en grundbok i modevetenskap, ett helt nytt akademiskt ämne i Sverige.

Kawamura behandlar modebegreppet i vid mening. För henne är mode långt mycket mer än modeller, haute couture och Parisvisningar som vi kanske tänker på till vardags. Hon lyfter i st[...]