What does a fashion house do when they want to make an upworthy statement that doesn’t stop at the edges of the garment? They hire a hair artist like Katsuya Kamo.
Kamo’s creations went so far beyond haircuts…
they’re sometimes closer to taxidermy…
or sculpture…
or masks…
or crowns.
The “Kamo Head: Katsuya Kamo Works 1996-2020” memorial retrospective is on through March 31, 2023, and features over 400 of his fabulous designs, along with a fascinating collection of his concept sketches and objects that inspired each collaboration with designers Junya Watanabe, Chanel, Undercover, Andrealage, Kiko Kostadinov and Mintdesigns.
A meticulously curated slideshow of runway models wearing his designs…
loops continuously over the displays of the headpieces featured in each collection.
Some mingled the ideas of crowns and thorns (check out the Alice X Good Friday headpiece there at the right)…
while others looked like they were about to take flight…
Some collections, with pieces like these, that are somewhere between jewelry and a chandelier…
are exhibited next to the dresses they enhanced at the collection’s debut, so we can get an idea of how fashion designer and hair designer worked hand in glove to project a look.
But I have to say, my favorites were the ones made from actual hair…
and this extravagant roosterish creation at the very end, in the bookstore.
When: Through March 31, 2023
Where: Omotesando Hills, Level B3, Jingumae 4-12-10
Hours: 11:00 – 18:00
Admission: Free
•
If you could use a little more fabulous art in your life…
Get more Japanese goodness straight from the source!
Subscribe to my monthly Japanagram e-magazine・° ♪・☆ It’s free!
Japanese Home Cooking recipes • Beyond Tokyo travel destinations • Seasonal Secret shopping & events • The Thing I Learned Today • Why, Japan, Why? • Monthly book or J-swag giveaway
•
Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
Only In Japan 
Oh my goodness. 😵💫❣️
I used to go to your blog all the time and then it stopped. Very happy to find you again!
Tara, I’m so happy you’re here! That accursed pandemic was tough on us all in so many ways. I got stuck outside Japan when they closed the borders, and for a while I tried to keep writing about all the great things I’d seen there, but it got harder and harder the longer they extended their isolation. Eventually I decided it would be better to stop writing about Japan than to write cranky boring things. But now I’m overjoyed to be back, and I’m so happy that you’re back too! ^_^