Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Overview

It's become an accepted part of life that everything from Japan is super darn awesome (or just plain weird). One of the areas they really manage to nail when it comes to the cool-factor is the fashion. Over the last few decades, avant-gardists like Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe have really transformed the industry through their radical rebellion against the conventions of Western couture.

GOMA's Future Beauty exhibition pays homage to such innovative Japanese fashion designs from the last 30 years. Accompanying the exhibition is a program of workshops, live music, food offerings and designer talks with long-time fashion greats such as Akira Isogawa and the chief curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute, Akiko Fukai.

On the music lineup for Future Beauty Up Late will be Harajuku band Broken Doll on their first ever Australian tour, London band Factory Floor, Japanese girl-trio Shonen Knife, salyu x salyu, Oscar Key Sung, Last Dinosaurs, and audio-visualist Sampology. Perhaps the most exciting of all, however, is the opening of Brisbane's own Comme des Garçons Pocket pop-up store, which will sell the label's 'Play' line, as well as its wallets and fragrances.