NEW FASHION JAPAN by Leonard Koren Kodansha; 176 pages; $19.95
It may be that the latest major movement of national popular culture to have international impactlike the French new wave in films or the British invasion of American rock musicis clothing from Japan. Fashion has generally been tied to society, to frivolity, to pricey artifice in the service of camp and commerce. It is a subject that seldom rates serious attention. There are not, after all, a lot of clothing designers who deserve it. But of those who do, a disproportionate number are...
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