Liza Dalby, author of Geisha, Kimono -- Fashioning Culture, and The Tale of Murasaki
| DATE: | Sunday, September 25, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 3:00 PM |
| PLACE: | Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue |
| FORMAT: | Lecture |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive |
Organized in conjunction with Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and other related events and programs.
The first two decades of the twentieth century in Japan saw the kimono burst forth in a creative last gasp of fashion for the masses. In this lecture, anthropologist and writer Liza Dalby examines the juncture where kimono began to lose ground to western clothing on its home turf, yet its exotic design and form (as seen through western eyes) impacted the fashions of Paris, London, and New York.
Liza Dalby
