Communication Through Touch, Media As Innovation

Touching  is a expressive form of communication. This ranges from experiencing textures to translating a language from these textures to form Braille.

                                     Texture Composition 

  Exploring Positive and Negative Textures Expressing Emotions

Communication Through Texture  

Issey Miyake is another artist that has demonstrated the process of innovation throughout her Art. The above photograph is a unique garment that Miyake has composed by constructing a variety of medias that no one has worked with before. This demonstrates the concept of innovation used within Fashion Design. The medias that Miyake used consists of:

• A variety of plastics
• Paper
• Card
• Wool
• Fleece
• Chiffon
• Usual Fabrics that allow ultimate stretching to be possible.
• Wire

YOHJI YOMOMATO

"I know it's just fabric. But it speaks to us like a world. If it were a desert, and you a traveller, you would talk about its winds, its stars, its sun. You probably will."  

This quote demonstrates my prior research into textures expressing deeper meanings. Yohji Yomomota and his concepts of Innovation using textures.

Exploring Innovation within Fashion Design

• Issey Miyake
• Yohji Yomomato
• Rei Kawakubo
• Jun Takahashi
• Tao Kurihara
• Hiroaki Ohya
• Fumito Ganryu
• Mikio Sakabe
• Kazuaki Takashina    

Please click on the following to enlarge images and view sketches from the Future Beauty 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at the Barbican Art gallery.