A Photographic Tour of Christopher Nemeth's Tokyo Atelier

First and foremost, fashion designer Christopher Nemeth was an artist. It wasn’t until he was studying painting at Camberwell College of Art during the late 1970s and early 80s that he expanded his practice into the wearable, initially creating clothes for his own personal use, and teaching himself to pattern cut by moulding paper toiles to his own body. Working with the deconstruction and reconstruction of salvaged materials – he fashioned parachute-like trousers from…