New Fashion Japan

The best book for Japanese style and culture in the 80's includes traditional wear, Tokyo street style, and high fashion. Features designs by Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Kansai Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Takeo Kikuchi, Shin Hosokawa, and Jürgen Lehl. A tight, clean copy with mild wear to cover. Pages are clean, crisp, and like-new. Cover has light rubbing and wear. Very good condition. Scarce. "A fully illustrated guide to new world of Japanese fashion, focusing on leading designers and featuring Tokyo streets and Tokyo people, celebrations of Japan's great fashion history, sensuous displays of fabrics and bodies, pages of stunning graphic art in color from the world's most lively fashion magazines, and brief discussions connecting the emerging look of urban culture and the Japanese revolution in clothes making, by Leonard Koren, formerly publisher of Wet magazine, America's leading journal of avant-garde visual culture.” - from the dust jacket flap. 8.6 x 11.6 inches