TOKYO FASHION MUSEUM
Tokyo, Japan | 2010
All black - all white, no grey. Lines-thicknesses–textures. fullness - emptiness. All black and white in fashion… a hundred meter tower with a runway – backstage-temporary shows – permanent shows. terrace gardens – roof terraces – sky bar. Male – female, rigid – soft. It might be covered in black and white leather, shining smoothly or punctured with open work, folded like origami, or in an optical design, as changeable as time, polished like lacquer. The repetition of the same movement - a flower is born and among the flowers a cherry tree. The repetition of the same movement and among men comes the samurai - among trees the cherry tree - among men - the warrior. The repetition of the same ideogram, the design of japanese gardens - the voluptuosness of geometry. Night falls over tokyo and the cherry blossom surrenders the luminous, opalescent transparency of the evening to the white canvas, fluid fabrics, essential to all creations in fashion, wrap the entire tower. During the night, technological eyes appear in the darkness between this inorganic skin (fibre glass)and the structure and project the fruits of human creativity over the city…