The 21st century in Tokyo is seeing a great migration of disciplines from one sphere into another. Fashion designers are collaborating with artists and exhibiting in galleries. Artists are collaborating with designers and exhibiting in shops.
It's a confusing renaissance and the segueing across boundaries resists classification. Earlier this year we had "The Corset," a rich, heady brew of fashion and art with digressions on the development of the corset threading the whole together, at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
This was followed by Issey Miyake's "Making Things" (reviewed in this paper by the fashion critic), a brilliant amalgamation of fashion, art, design and curatorship.