The National Art Center, Tokyo Special Exhibition "Fashion in Japan 1945-2020: Fashion and Society"

From Monpe to the sustainable near future,
Tracing the history of Postwar Japanese Fashion,
The world's first large-scale exhibition!

Since the 1970s, Japanese fashion designers have gained worldwide reputation. Until now, Japanese fashion has been talked about as if it was suddenly born with them, but that is not the case. In the Meiji period( 1868-1912) Japan became a modern nation and western-style dress was used, and after World War II, Western-style dress became common and developed a unique culture of dress.
In this exhibition, we will look at the unique clothing trajectory, especially in postwar Japan, from the designer side that creates clothes and ideas, and the consumer (receptive) side, which sometimes creates the movement of the times by wearing clothes, and also refers to the media that have become mainstream in each era, such as newspapers, magazines, and advertisements. This is the world's first major exhibition that unravels cutting-edge trends in Japanese fashion based on clothes, which have never been introduced together before, along with social backgrounds.

Highlights of this exhibition
・ A special exhibition where you can see the history of Japanese fashion from pre-war to the present day.
・ It consists not only of clothes and styles proposed by designers who are trendy callers, but also from the perspective of both sides: trends of consumers who are the receiving party.
・ Introducing not only clothing but also fashion culture at the time, including various media such as photographs, videos, magazines, music, etc. at the time.
・Exhibiting icon works and materials from various periods with the cooperation of brands and apparel manufacturers, including two buildings, the Shimane Prefectural Ikishiri Museum of Art and the Kobe Fashion Museum, which have one of japan's leading clothing collections.