Bonnie EnglishJapanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo

Great

surprised to find this written by someone local - - nice - good book for those who are inspired by Japanese fashion.

This book is the perfect starting point if you want to do research on the japanese fashion/clothing designers and their work. It explains much not only about their work in general but also about their techniques and philosophies.However, as the other reviewer pointed out, the book is flawed. My copy is missing pages 17-48 and substituted them with pages 81-112, which are again repeated in the order later on. This proved to be a major stepback in my research. I don't believe I can return the book as I already marked it with my notes.

also, this book I bought for my thesis paper, I read it in school library, then I realized I need to buy it and have it.

Perfect guide to understand the Japanese contemporary fashion design.

The book starts off at page 17.

Such an immensely disappointing read. The book is very small, with grainy black and white photos, and small font. The text about each designer is broad, and not informative. Wikipedia does a better job than this author, which is sad. I consider myself a novice of Japanese design, but I'm very interested in it, so it's unfortunate when you buy a book a don't learn much from it. Buyer beware- it's a total waste of money.

Japanese Fashion Designers (the work and influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo) is a nice book especially for the price. One MAJOR flaw is that each designer get a section of their own with a photo of the designer at the beginning of the chapeter, well Issey Miyake's is wrong. It's not a picture of Issey Miyake, but of Naoki Takizawa (a former Issey Miyake designer). It's sad that the writer/editor did NOT notice this. How you can NOT tell that the photo is not of Issey Miyake? Very idiotic!Outside of that the book is pretty good with info on newer designers. One of my personal favorites being Tao Kurihara (sadly she does not have her own line, Tao, anymore. It also has wonderful sections on the Japanese influence on Dutch and Belgian designers.I do recommend the book, but that mislabeled photo is a BIG BIG screw up!!!!

Its not a leisurely read. Its more relevant from an academic point of view.

se sei appassionato di moda ed in particolare modo di moda giapponese, non puoi non avere questo libro

Very good book

Questo libro é stato uno dei miei amici più cari durante la scrittura della mia tesi di laurea. Spedizione puntuale, libro in ottime condizioni: gli voglio bene come un figlio.

Thank you, the book is good!