2025.06.06FRI
Questions Posed by "Ikenaino Fashion Exhibition" – What's Bad Fashion, and Is It Really Bad?
When looking back at the history of fashion, many items that were once trendy and favored have been deemed "environmentally harmful," "discriminatory," or "health hazards" due to changes in values or new knowledge and technologies. As a result, many items are now considered "not to be worn."
The exhibit that has garnered attention is the ongoing "Ikenaino Fashion Exhibition (いけないのファッション展)" (literally, "Bad Fashion Exhibition") at the Accessory Museum, which collects materials and documents related to fashion that is now shunned by modern values.
The exhibition, as symbolized by the flyer message, "Poisonous glowing glass, human-shaped accessories, and animal furs—all were culturally fashionable once," aims not to simply reject "bad fashion" from a contemporary perspective but to prompt visitors to think for themselves.
In this feature, we interviewed Risako Kitamura, a curator at the museum who was responsible for planning the exhibition, to learn about its origins and intentions.
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