Future Beauty

What separates fashion apart from art is the ability to be expressive and show forms of the past and future through a variety of elements such as fabric, architectural shapes, color, silhouette, and other details that make it a complete piece.  Each part has a contribution to the perspective the designer is trying to portray.  Where art, there are a variety of forms.  But they are not combined elements to form one piece of artwork.  Art you can use each medium separately, but with fashion you cannot leave out one element.  An example, Yohiji Yamamoto collection consists of a drape-like style and are neutral colors.  These designs give off a classic, business like feel and looks like it is part of the modern world, with it's hard edges, sharp lines, and relaxed colors.  Rei Kanakubo has a similar style, the neutral colors and the drape-like material.  But his collection as a whole seems it is more futuristic in the sense of the material's sharp cut offs, lines and geometric shapes it contains.  Another great example is Issey Miyake, a person who uses bizarre structures to emphasize futuristic/past like qualities such as sharp edges, defined form, and adjusted architecture that give the collection a futuristic, but yet past feel because the clothes alone have an old glow to the material and the colors are more of dull pastel or bold colors.