With a lack of training, but an eye for the outlandish, Christian Joy set about fashioning hand-painted t-shirts, re-designing dresses, and channelling punk rock’s DIY ethics, in Brooklyn, 2000. Incidentally, the same year Yeah Yeah Yeahs started creating the chaotic beauty of their blissfully unhinged art-punk. Joy’s stage costumes for Karen O were a major part of what made the band such an instantly recognisable force, and establish their frontwoman as a fashion icon.
Running through 10th August, Do Androids Dream of Electric Shrimp? is a major exhibition of the eccentric designer’s costumes and textile artworks, showing at DIESEL ART GALLERY, the Italian brand’s Tokyo concept store; DIESEL SHIBUYA. With video installations, her new costume series Kite Monsters, bean-bag chairs, posters and limited t-shirts (the latter three available to buy) joining some of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ singer’s most celebrated outfits, this is a rare chance to enter the world of one of fashion’s most eccentric, creative talents.
Photograph; Ken Kato
Photograph; Claire Carre and Jae Song
Photograph; Ken Kato
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Photograph; Ken Kato
Photograph; Jim Baldwin
Photograph; Nick Zinner
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Photograph; Ken Kato
Photograph; Rachel Warner
