Kimono : the art and evolution of Japanese fashion : the Khalili collections
Anna Jackson (Editor), Timon Screech (Contributor), Christine Guth (Contributor), Kendall H. Brown (Contributor)
Kimono showcases a magnificent range of kimonos from the Khalili Collection, which comprises more than 200 garments and spans almost 300 years of Japanese textile artistry. Gorgeously illustrated and written by an international team of experts, the book surveys kimono of the imperial court, samurai aristocracy, and affluent merchant classes of the Edo period (1603-1868); the shifting styles and new color palette of Meiji period dress (1868-1912); and the bold and dazzling kimono of the Taisho (1912-26) and early Showa (1926-89) periods, when designers used innovative new techniques and fused traditional looks with inspiration from the modernist aesthetic then sweeping the world
Catalogs
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
9780500518021, 0500518025
917375803
Preface / David Khalili
Introduction : Clad in the aesthetics of tradition: from kosode to kimono / Nagasaki Iwao
I. Edo (1603-1868) : Governing, spending and wearing in the Edo period / Timon Screech
Dress in the Edo period: the evolution of fashion / Anna Jackson
II. Meiji (1868-1912) : The Meiji era: the ambiguities of modernization / Christine M.E. Guth
Dress in the Meiji period: change and continuity / Anna Jackson
III. Taishō and early Shōwa (1912-1950) : Delirious Japan: culture and art in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods / Kendall H. Brown
Dress in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods: traditions transformed / Anna Jackson