Exploring Art Knowledge and Movement in Japanese Fashion

The Japanese concept of ma intrigues fashion designers' imagination of the space between textile and skin. Exploring Art Knowledge and Movement in Japanese Fashion tells a philosophical story of the Greek poiein avant-garde Japanese fashion designers the Paris high fashion scene and Chinese classics from early modern to contemporary times. It traverses the terrain of history of art performance studies religion and the eighteenth-century literary masterpiece The Dream of Red Chamber (Hongloumeng Story of the Stone).