For instance, what if you show visitors all the process you make a gear out of a material on your site after giving away real collective materials?
What’s your idea about your shops also functioning as cafe?

S.K: Certainly, we are sure to have a cafe space for anyone to get together and have fun. When renovating A New Shop next time, we’ll put a counter for the cafe. There’ll be nice books, accessories and stuff selected by us there.

K.K: A New Shop is going to be renovated in the first week of September, and it has a small cafe space in connection with the cafe project for the future. We still have more to do before going for a complete and independent cafe. It’s going to be open in the second week of September. Why don’t you visit there then?

Are you planning to have an another shop opened in the near futute?

K.K: At this stage, we are not thinking about that. we are doing our best to manage A New Shop.

S.K: We’ve been sticking to clothing for seveal years, and now we feel we are just about to actually realise our goal to produce state-of-the-art combinaion of T-shirts and pants. I hope I’ll always keep making ony the same gear line-up.
But, in that case, the price of the line-up will matter, though. It’ll want to be a shop to display our flag-ship.

When you concern about prices of your stuff, you mean you need a line-up with a reasonable price range?

K.K: Not always so. Clothing should be of practical use as well as an art. If you don’t wear it, it’s a non-sense. You can enjoy photos and pictures with your eyes, or go to one of those galleries to see them. But you can never enjoy clothing at an exhibition space.
It’s meant to correspond to its nature when it’s worn and shown to others.
And price range has to match up to quality. So, there’s always a conflict going between sellers’ side and manufacturers’ side; Even if we made a supreme gear out of the best materials, who would ever buy it for a fortune? I, as a seller, usually have trouble with manufactures’ side and try to reach a compromise. We’re always walking on a tightrope. (laugh)

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