Speaking of Japanese fashion...how excited are we for the barbican exhibition?

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Bringing together the work of avant-garde fashion designers from the 1980s to the present, this exhibition illustrates a uniquely Japanese aesthetic known as iki, displaying garments with the defining characteristics of minimalist lines, deconstructed detailing and a fusing of traditional and cutting-edge techniques. Curator Akiko Fukai, director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, has assembled garments from big names such as Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto and Junya Watanabe, alongside radical up-and-comers including Fumito Ganryu and Mintdesigns   Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion 15 October 2010 - 6 February 2011 Barbican Art Gallery
Tickets: £8 online/£10 on the door Time: Open daily 11am-8pm (Tue and Wed until 6pm) Thu until 10pm subject to availability
Description  / Designers in the Exhibition Issey Miyake Rei Kawakubo Yohji Yamamoto Junya Watanabe Jun Takahashi Tao Kurihara Matohu mintdesigns Kosuke Tsumura minä perhonen Kenzo Takada Hiroki Ohya ZUCCA Naoki Takizawa (for Issey Miyake) Fumito Ganryu Anrealage Somarta Né-Net Sacai Mikio Sakabe Taro Horiuchi Akira Naka