
Hysteric Glamour
A Tokyo label that weaponised Western counterculture—and never let the clothes catch up to the graphics.
The gallery admitting the supermarket.




Nylon is a family of synthetic thermoplastics characterised by amide linkages, melt-processed into fibres, films and moulded shapes. Wallace Carothers made the first one at DuPont in 1935, and women's stockings made it famous. Pure nylon's weaknesses in clothing led to blends with cotton, polyester and spandex, and pure nylon is now rarely used.

