Akira Isogawa On Rescuing Fabric from the Trash and Why A Simple Soup Beats Truffles
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
English - March 02, 2022 04:01 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFashion & Beauty Arts Design fashion sustainability sustainable fashion ethical fashion clare press vogue business of fashion design climate designers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What does it mean to leave - voluntarily - your homeland, to make a new creative life in another country? How might the place you left behind and the new one you chose collide in your work? Thirty-five years after he left Koyoto and enrolled in East Sydney Technical College, with a big dream and small bag full of kimonos nicked off his mum, Akira Isogawa is an Australian national treasure. He's been the subject of major museum retrospectives, designed costumes for the ballet, and seen his work worn by supermodels, and championed by Vogue editors and influential buyers. But Akira is still as humble as they come.
Clare sits down with the iconic Japanese-Australian fashion designer to discuss home, roots and the future, and past, of fashion. It’s a delightful conversation touching on the artist's creative journey and his collaborators, his long fascination with Japanese textiles and his approach to sustainability - which considers minimalism, recycling, repurposing and mending.
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