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Design
Craft Design
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Japanese fashion designers have won high acclaim from countries around the world. |
In the field of craft design, various implements, tools, eating utensils, and other items suited to modern living are being fashioned on the basis of traditional Japanese crafts, such as lacquerware, woodwork, pottery, metalwork, casting, chasing, weaving, and dyeing. These craft products, the outgrowth of Japan's unique climate and culture, are gaining popularity as modern folkcrafts.
Fashion design
In the field of fashion, Japanese designers have been winning
particular acclaim internationally in recent years. When Japanese designers
first began to be noticed abroad, interest stemmed from curiosity about Japanese
taste and Japanese style, but today the spotlight focuses on the character of
individual designers. Following in the steps of the pioneering Mori Hanae, there
have been Ashida Jun, Kawakubo Rei, Miyake Issei, Takada Kenzo, and Yamamoto
Yoji. The Westernization of the Japanese style of living has left little
opportunity to use the traditional kimono, although nowadays a new sense of
values and new designs are leading to a reevaluation of the kimono and of ways
of wearing it.