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Page shots from Leonard Koren's New Fashion Japan (Published by Kodansha America, 1984 (first edition))

Such a treat getting this book in the mail. I discovered it during my usual perusing eBay for vintage Issey. It is out of print and a bit of a pinch but well worth the dramatic spreads/photographs - especially the Rei Kawakubo abstractions of designs flying through the air (there are a lot more but this post was already gigantic!). 1980s fashion from Japan was a very refreshing approach to clothes-wearing, with emphasis on layered textiles and their reaction to the body moving with and within, resulting in this sort of druid androgyny thing.