Scientific Research on Transboundary Contemporary Japanese Fashion

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370177
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Bunka Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Takagi Yoko 文化学園大学, 服装学部, 教授 (60307999)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SLADE Toby 東京大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (70534337)
• Research Collaborator: MOHAJER Daphne 文化学園大学, 生活環境学研究科 ; THOELEN Saskia 文化学園大学, 生活環境学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ファッション / 芸術学 / 芸術と産業 / テキスタイル / 国際研究者交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project focuses on the cultural and geographical transboundary aspects of fashion and textiles. The "Transboundary Fashion" seminars took place twice a year, and invited a variety of experts, academics, designers, and curators from home and abroad. Using six themes (Bridging Theory and Practice, The UK and The Far East, Technical Innovation and Modernization, Street Fashion, Fashion Exhibitions in Non Western Regions, and Collaboration between French-Japanese Art Studies and Anthropology), it accumulated various case studies in which fashion has been deployed in various art forms and where new cultural expressions are created when national and regional borders are crossed. It also established an international network of researchers.

Free Research Field

芸術学