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FASHION

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

"A must for anybody who admires these very creative Japanese designers – It should be a brilliant exhibition" - Paul Smith

Starting today and running until February, the Barbican brings us a look into the ever-progressive avant-garde Japanese fashion.

“The first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique sensibility of Japanese design, and its sense of beauty embodied in clothing.”

“Japanese fashion made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late 20^th century and designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion. Their works will be shown alongside Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno-couturier Junya Watanabe, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara, Fumito Ganryu, Matohu, Akira Naka, Mina Perhonen and Mintdesigns.” Picture and info courtesy of Barbican

ART

Frieze Art Fair

The Frieze Art Fair is upon us once again, featuring over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. It also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, and a prestigious talks programme to inform and inspire us, not to be missed. Taking over Regents Park until the 17^th, The annual fair showcases new and established artists to an international audience; It’s hard to find elsewhere such an eclectic selection of galleries, artists, individuals and collectives, and the Daydream team will be there tomorrow taking in the sights.

Picture Frieze

DESIGN

For the ultimate fix in snazzy furniture, breathtaking light installations and tables-that-are-cleverer-than-you, head over the Super Design 2010.  

Held at Victoria house on Bloomsbury Square, London’s premier design art exhibition will feature specially commissioned, unique and limited edition pieces from international galleries including The Apartment, D&A-Lab, Quadrige, Mitterrand-Cramer, Tom Dixon, Herve Van Der Straeten and Vessel Gallery among others. Now in its 4^th year, super design will be running alongside Frieze, and like a lot of supplementary frieze exhibits, is free to get in.

Picture courtesy of Super Design