YOSHIKAZU YAMAGATA

2010.2.17　 Text: mina

A fashion designer, Yoshikazu Yamagata works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion, tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his past JFW (Japan Fashion Week) collections such as “A ...

NATSUKI OTAKE

2010.2.14　 Text: Mariko Takei

The solo exhibition “Affection of idols” is held at the 2nd floor of DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA, showing selected past works and new collection by Natsuki Otake, an artist who draws girls using the Japanese traditio...

YUSUKE KAGARI

2010.2.12　 Text: mina

A bag is a very personal space which you can take along with you. Yusuke Kagari is a bag designer who have special consideration over the texture of bag, as rebuilding the mobile space and separating the personal spac...

FANTASISTA UTAMARO

2010.2.12　 Text: Mariko Takei

Fantasista Utamaro, he puts his hand to the works that send out eye-chatchingly pop and intense colors. His works that are strongly influenced by manga cover the whole fields of Illustration, textile, graphic, and vi...

EMIL AMOS

2010.2.2　 Text: Victor Moreno

He has different facets in one. A width spanning from investigating labors and essays, including eulogy for the JFK assassination, to avant garde- techno compositions into rock music. Music production, worldwide tours...

PMKFA

2010.1.31　 Text: Mariko Takei

The cover design for February was created by PMKFA, who is originally from Sweden and is now based in Tokyo, creating diverse works for various fields. Nothing can stop PMKFA who explores something unexperienced, but ...

PAUL JAMES

2010.1.31　 Text: Monika Mogi

VANITY has been the ideal party to the artists, models and hipsters of Tokyo since 2004 and with a guest list filled with internationally renowned bands and fashion designers, it has become the place to be. This inter...

COWRICE

2010.1.27　 Text: Justin Tsui

Philip Lau and Grace Kwok is a typical young couple in Hong Kong. They share the same life attitude: be simple. They have also formed a creative unit “cowrice” in 2003 to occasionally produce different forms of art. ...

WORD OF ART

2010.1.20　 Text: Bertina Appel

Word of Art was a concept founded by two South African friends hailing from Johannesburg who decided to make their home and launch their unique concept in Cape Town. Trying to break the conventional concept of the...

GOODMORNING TECHNOLOGY

2010.1.17　 Text: Victor Moreno

Goodmorning Technology was founded in 2003. They are based in Copenhagen, Denmark with an international mindset and a contact office in London plus a solid global network. Goodmorning Technology is held by four par...

NATSUKI ARAI

2009.12.28　 Text: Mariko Takei

The very first cover design for SHIFT 2010 is a work by Natsuki Arai who has worked on the visual for the last page of SHIFT 2010 Calendar. Based in Tokyo, Natsuki Arai has been working on illustrations as an individu...

CTRL

2009.12.24　 Text: Victor Moreno

It's not often you find such high quality products in street fashion. Well, with the Scandinavian brand CTRL (readed “control”) you have found it. From Helsinki with love, there now taking the fashion world by storm. ...