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Article from Issue#43 (March 7, 2022)

The Wardrobe Crisis Episode 158 - Akiro Isogawa

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 Kyoto 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 retrospectives at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse in Sydney, designed costumes for the ballet, and seen his work championed internationally by people like the late Italian Vogue fashion editor Anna Piaggi, and the iconic Mrs. B, Joan Burstein from Browns in London.

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 collaborators, his long fascination with Japanese textiles and his approach to sustainability - which considers minimalism, recycling, repurposing and mending.

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