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Federica BUZZI

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	Italy
City	Tokyo
Period	2018.5 - 2018.6

Purpose of the residency

This research project is inspired by 1973 sartorial manifesto 'Dressing is Easy' by the Italian group of architects Archizoom. Denying sartorial traditions, seasonal and gender-specific clothing, 'Dressing is Easy' was a radical attack on Western fashion at the time. Interestingly, Archizoom's fashion project shows similarities with Japanese traditional clothing in terms of aesthetics and structure, for instance in the flatness of the garments and the zero-waste pattern making. This brought me to Tokyo to investigate the connections between Italy and Japan, fashion and architecture, avant-garde manifestos and contemporary practices.

Plan during the residency

- Research on history of costume and architecture in Japan
- Research on the history of cultural exchange between clothing in the East and the West which has shaped many institutions in Japan: Kyoto Costume Institute, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum, Kobe Fashion Museum.
- Organize a workshop with students from the Bunka Fashion College where Archizoom's 1973 sartorial manifesto "Dressing is easy" will be presented.
- Realize a publication with research

■Downlaod a publication

Fashionably Late IT.pdf PDF:Downlaod

Fashionably Late JP.pdfPDF:Downlaod

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