N.Y.'s Met museum to add Japanese designer Tamae Hirokawa to collection

NEW YORK - Garments designed by Japanese artist Tamae Hirokawa, who is known for creating seamless knitwear based on the concept of "skin," will be added to a permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and shown as part of a new exhibition.

Hirokawa will join fellow Japanese designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Hanae Mori, whose works are part of the collection at the museum's Costume Institute, known as one of the world's largest fashion curatorial departments.