Kimono inspired by the ‘street’, Jotaro Saito | V&A
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2020
- Having begun his career designing both western clothing and kimono, at the age of 27, Jotaro Saito made the decision to concentrate solely on the latter. The experience gained through designing western styles greatly influenced the direction of his kimono. Taking inspiration from the 'street', Saito set about creating contemporary designs that resonate with a modern fashion-conscious customer.
Saito's collections, which are shown at Tokyo Fashion Week, are still made using the traditional and extremely time-consuming method of hand-drawn yuzen dyeing. The resulting ensembles blend unique, multi-layered designs with an identifiably Japanese garment.
Find out more: vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/kimono
The fusion of modern sensitivity and traditional craftsmanship always produces great things
斎藤上太郎の着物をV&Aの着物展で初めて見ました。伝統と最新の流行を高い技術で組み合わせていて、魅了されました。素晴らしいビデオです。ありがとうございます。
I watched Saito Jotaro`s kimonos for the first time at Kyoto to Kimono exhibtion at V&A. I was fashinated by his skills that connects Japanese tradtions and modern fashion. This is a wonderful video. Thank you very much for making and uploading it.
ストリートインスピレーションは大事けど斎藤上太郎は見てるストリートは日本のストリートじゃなくてNYC、LA, ロンドン、パリ、ベルリン、ミラノ のストリートです。
斎藤上太郎はちょっと西洋かぶれ過ぎてますと思う。
和服の和と呉服屋の呉を忘れるとただの服になる。
着物はただの服ではないと思います。
Thank you so much for doing an exhibit and especially this interview video series on modern kimono stylists and designers. I have been a kimono enthusiast for over a decade and finally all my friends know what designers I am talking about!!! 💕
日本の文化をこのように大切に扱ってくれてほんとにありがとうございます。
Beautiful... So elegant and respectful of craftsmanship.
Ahhhh I LOOOVE KIMONO, REALLY A WORK OF ART!!
Never fails to be beautiful..kimono is evergreen. 🌲⭐🌲
So good to hear, every aspect of Japanese work is ultimate beauty and precision, there is art but then we have Japanese art that makes my heart skip a beat.
I wish I could find this type of artisan studio in my city, would love to work at a place like this. Vancouver thinks beer is artisinal... smh. These are such beautiful creations
Such beautiful and elegant pieces!
Stunning work. Great vid.
VnA you are making my day! Akira Times AND Saito kimono? YES!!!
Fascinating
STUNNING THANK YOU
3:20 I thought he was about to introduce us to his father, who he keeps in a storage unit.
Kimonos have to be special with all the skill and time that is involved. "Design" is now a word in Japanese and recycling is starting to happen.
cool!
If I could afford it I'd wear it. Its beautiful.
Greetings and thank you for such beauty on the Curator Tour.
But street is special =] ♡
1:12 very cute
😍😍😍💔💔💔
Strange, how a tradition of not allowing for woman’s waist to be seen, so, covering it with layers of material has started and obi was born.
Was it really like that, I wonder?
时尚穿搭，个性潮流服饰尽在江西品牌商品出口交易会。男装，女装，儿童服饰，内衣，运动、休闲服装，家纺，地毯，鞋类
Fashion wear matching, personalized fashion clothing in Jiangxi brand product export online exhibition .men and women's wear, children's wear,underwear,sports and casual wear,home textiles,carpets and tapestry,shoes
Kimono was introduced to Japan by Korean monk as funeral clothing in plain tan material color which Japenise copied it to make it into their own clothing with coloring because they had none. Japenise history only go back 2000 years compare to 5000 years for Korea.
The problem with Mister Saito, whom i know very well (being from Kyoto myself, born and raised just across the Kamo River from his establishment Gion Saito), and i have told him repeatedly, is that his inspiration is not from the street as he says, but from the west. And the one thing he seems to forget (and god knows his father and mother tried to remind him of that), is that KIMONO is WAFUKU (Japanese wear) and the people making KIMONO are called GOFUKU YASAN and GOFUKU (old chinese wear) means that the WAFUKU has its roots in China. This means that the KIMONO is an intrinsically Asian wear with a 100% asian sensibility to it. Trying to westernize KIMONO is like trying to take something typically British like let's say the queen's wardrobe and ad Kimono sleeves to all her garments or have them all @painted or r embroidered with Momiji and Sakura or a mount Fuji on the back, or ask the French to make soy sauce flavoured champagne to be drunk with Sushi.
That Mister Saito gets inspiration from the street is one thing, but if he tries to get inspiration from the streets of NYC or London and Paris or Berlin then he is going to lose what makes Kimonos, .... KIMONO. The streets of Tokyo and Kyoto or Osaka are filled with people who have re-invented the Kimono fashion for years in a specifically Japanese way which both Japanese and Westerners love, but what Jotaro San is doing here is trying to make the Kimono western.
And i can't even blame him for that, Juntaro, is the son of one of the wealthiest business in Japan and was raised in a very wealthy way, meaning private japanese school, foreign boarding school, many years in the US, a few years in Europe, etc, ... He may be Japanese by name and birth but his sensibility when it comes to aesthetic and clothing is completely western. Sadly he inherited one of the pillar establishment of Japanese culture.
Luckily his western kimono business venture is just one department of Gion Saito, and the rest of it remains fiercely Japanese, still making Kimono in the most traditional fashion for people who can afford them (the Karyukai, the merchant class the popular music players (shamisen, taiko), and the Kabuki theatre while the Noh theatre, the clergy, the tea ceremony masters and flower arranging masters and students, calligraphers, Gagaku musicians and of course the aristocracy dresses elsewhere as they would never be associated with the popular class Gion Saito caters to).
Which is why i am sure he relished at the opportunity of being featured by the V&A museum, .... i believe Tattler is the next step !
暗くて、キモい💙。ゴスロリ調を美しいと感じる層が買うんでしょうか ; 本物の着物はベトナムに発注されているのに、こういう特殊なものだけ日本で丁寧に制作されているのを見ると…💔/ Japan is And ALWAYS HAVE BEEN a country full of “mottainai” spirits, I don’t know why he talks nonsense for money and attention☹️...
Streetwear a.k.a. black American style