Barbican Art Gallery - Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

4 November 2010

5 October 2010 - 6 February 2011

I Like the thin fabric they use to separate the space into smaller parts. They lead you trough it so you can see almost every mannequin with their Japanese fashion clothing.
Upstairs the building walls have the same separating function but they also create specific sets for the exhibited subject, Japanese Fashion of specific designers with their image. Some are covered with wallpaper, letters or a reflecting white material.

The lighting upstairs on the display cases is not good because the main thing you see when you want to look what is displayed is your own shadow.

The exhibition is made up out of smaller and bigger raised platforms with doll mannequins standing on them, this is mainly downstairs. Upstairs are the display cases I just mentioned and some more mannequins on raised platforms.
There is a documentary of fashion shows shown downstairs at the end of the exhibition, the accompanying music can be heard throughout the whole exhibition.