Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.
William Gibson"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
William GibsonYou must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
William Gibson