2024.09 / LOVE Fashion_In Search of Myself Traveling Exhibition

LOVE Fashion_In Search of Myself” Traveling Exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto - Kyoto, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto - Kumamoto, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery - Tokyo Dressing is a universal human activity. The clothes that we wear embody or conceal our internal desires, and they can reveal those desires along with our longings, our passions, and the conflicts and contradictions that we face. Fashion has a role as a receptacle for ʻLoveʼ: the passions and aspirations of the wearer. Driven by those emotions, we may be motivated to wear something that we like, be inspired by someoneʼs look, want to be ourselves, or just want to lose ourselves. Fashion opens up a colourful world, like a kaleidoscope. This exhibition is based on clothes and other fashion items from The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) ʼs collection of costume from the eighteenth century to the present day. In conjunction with art that throws light on fundamental human drives and instincts, the exhibits encourage us to ponder the various forms of ʻLoveʼ that can be seen in relation to fashion. Through this exhibition, we gain an opportunity to think about and reevaluate what it means for humans to wear clothes.