"Japan doesn't have any competition in fashion at the moment - it's doing something so different, the way it did with hi-fi. This is fashion thoroughly informed by traditional aesthetics: aji, which might involve fabrics where the incongruity speaks of the congruity of the whole; the idea of sleeves filled with nothing; the idea of colored space, as in the Edo Kabuki."
-Donald Richie quoted in Scenes from the Fashionable World, by Kennedy Frasier
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Ah, fashion... . As Stan wrote in the comics " 'Nuf said."
A nice quotation though. Although, in terms of a philosophy of clothing, I think something more like: "beautiful fabrics, perfectly cut, elegantly fitted and timeless" might fit the bill better. What do you think?
Entirely more subjective and certainly less Zen. Which probably makes me most unfashionable.
I'll have to learn to live with it.
Japan has no competition? I see people dressed like this on the streets of New York City all the time!
Not my cup of tea (nor that of other readers here, either, no doubt), but at least there's some attention being paid to one's appearance.
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