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Jum Nakao

Designer Biography

Jum Nakao is a multimedia artist, designer and Creative Director. He lives and works in Sao Paulo. His works are part of the most important fashion exhibitions worldwide. Nakao is famous for his performance featured at the 2004 Sao Paolo Fashion Week. It ended with the models tearing paper clothes from their bodies - destroying more than 700 hours of work in just a few seconds. At the London Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremonies, Jum is the designer of the Brazilian Ceremony Presentation. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, comissioned Jum Nakao an incredible installation inspired by Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette." Nakao transformed the actual script of the movie into a paper dress and headpiece fashioned after the costume worn by Kirsten Dunst on-screen.

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Costume at the Turn of the Century (1990 - 2015) - Moscow, Russia - - June-August 2015

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