28-year old Taro Horiuchi has emerged onto the Japanese fashion industry as one of its bright talents, representing youth and modernity. Within his short career, he has already worked with Diesel and has now successfu...

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN

2010.4.27　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Since his first collection in 1994, Cyprus born fashion designer, Hussein Chalayan has been internationally known for his innovative use of materials, progressive attitudes to new technology and social criticism. Full...

HIROKI TSUKUDA

2010.3.30　 Text: Mariko Takei

An artist who collages fragments of memories. Hiroki Tsukuda is a Tokyo-based artist who creates a range of works including drawings, paintings and 3D pieces. His collage and reconstructed works somehow bring b...

ANTE VOJNOVIC

2010.3.22　 Text: mina

Ante Vojnovic, an invited artist of H.P. FRANCE, relishing the joy derived from creation, alone in his atelier in the suburbs, about 40 minutes away from the city center of Tokyo. There is nothing to delude or bind hi...

MARUWAKAYA

2010.3.9　 Text: mina

January 2010—The Kamide Kutani Keigo Exhibition, "KUTANI CONNEXION" (Spiral, Omotesando) and "Medicine and Art" (Mori Museum, Roppongi) are some of the exhibits for which Kamide Choemongama's Kamide Keigo is garnering...

BEN NAGAOKA

2010.2.28　 Text: Mariko Takei

DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA is holding an installation "Labyrinth of Woods" by an unique architect Ben Nagaoka and his unit POINT who create individual environment as inner landscape fusing furniture and space concept...

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...

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...