Fashion Culture: The King of Japanese Kawaii

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City

Image: Cover of Portrait of Sebastian Masuda by GION. Courtesy of Sebastian Masuda. FIT Professor Yuniya Kawamura will be in conversation with fashion and art creator Sebastian Masuda, internationally recognized as the leading figure in Japan’s kawaii (cute) subculture. Masuda understands kawaii not merely as an aesthetic, but as an explicit, nonviolent mode of rebellion […]