Event at the Embassy

2020/10/10



The Unbounded Potential of Kimono, Kyoto to Catwalk

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 1pm-2pm  (BST)
Online Talk, via Zoom

 

The Embassy will host an online talk on Tuesday 20 October on the development of the kimono and the lasting influence it has on modern day fashion.
 
Anna Jackson, curator of the successful Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibition at the V&A, will explain the background to the exhibition and how it charts the history and the importance of the garment.
 
Kimono designer Jotaro Saito, whose work is on display in the V&A’s exhibition, will join from Japan to discuss his unique outlook on fashion, what influenced him from the UK and how he creates a kimono ensemble, including an obi and accessories. 
 
Guests will be able to put their questions to the speakers in this live event.
 
To book your place for this talk, visit the registration page on the Zoom website.
 
 
The Speakers

A specialist in Japanese textiles and dress, Anna Jackson has written widely on the subject and is the curator of the exhibition Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk and editor of the accompanying publication. Her other major research interest is the cultural relationship between Asia and Europe, and in 2004 she was co-curator of Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800.
 
Jotaro Saito is a kimono designer and textile artist born in Kyoto to a family of textile dyeing artists. He has spent his career exploring the kimono as a fashion item for the modern age, matching the spaces we inhabit and ways that we live. Taking inspiration from the ‘street’, Saito’s collections are regularly shown at Tokyo Fashion Week and are still made using the traditional and time-consuming method of hand-drawn yuzen dyeing.

 

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