Novembre
Tokyo: Issey Miyake, Inc. and Getsuyosha Ltd. / Yutaka Kambayashi, 2004. Unbound sheets housed in portfolio slipcase. Unpaginated. 24 black and white plates printed full bleed on clear acetate and laminated to heavy coated art paper, with a three-page gatefold pamphelt with introductory texts and graphics on Moriyama and Takizawa. Edition of 1500. 12 1⁄2 x 17 in. Very good. Item #6575
Daido Moriyama’s first fashion photo book in collaboration with creative director Naoki Takizawa of Issey Miyake. Shot in northeast Paris alongside the Canal Saint Martin, the book presents the model Zora in Issey Miyake clothes debuted as part of the Paris Collection in S/S 2004.
Takizawa has described the book as a work of realism: “the clothes have tumbled into ... a reality that is somehow the actual Paris,” illuminated in Moriyama’s gritty monochrome. In these plates, they attend to changes in women’s fashion at the time, that clothes were about to become an expression of “inner life.”
An electrifying juxtaposition of street-photography and high fashion, limited to 1500 copies.
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