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Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake- Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century- challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art. Today a new generation of radical designers- among them Tao Kurihara and Jun Takahashi- is fast gaining acclaim. This spectacular book- written by a team of experts led by the eminent fashion historian Akiko Fukai- explores the distinct sensibility of Japanese design - the uniqueness of its form- cut and fabric. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches- Future Beauty is an authoritative and stylish guide to some of the worlds most expressive fashion....