The exhibition for the ABRAHAM with the Monsieur Swiss Silk King Gustav Zumsteg's an aesthetic senses, It's the"soiepirate"

The exhibition which I waited for began.
It is a soiepirate exhibition of the National Gallery of Zurich.

It is the exhibition of many splendid archive collection that noble company ABRAHAM left of silk print.
The total picture of his splendid work after Gustav Zumsteg purchases this company in '68 is seen in particular.
Zurich of old days was an excellent production center of the silk which competed with Como district of neighboring Italy more than 100 years.
The Gustav died two years ago, too.
Though he made an opportunity he met, and to do it during the lifetime, I was distracted by business and looked forward to this exhibition even more because it was not possible to meet at last.
As for me, there was an opportunity it was informed a friend, and to visit the treasure house of these treasures, the archive room,once after a company was closed.
I remembered it clearly, but it was still a home of the elegance that there overflowed.
Collections of documents of a splendid textile and the print of the hand dyeing of the 18th century when them gathered you their form a line,
It was the room where the scrapbooks of the print of ABRAHAM which did not lose in them formed a line orderly.
At first,the room was provided till my that memory revived from the first exhibition room.
I was similar till excitement and impressions overflowed and did not suffer in so much time.
The restaurant for chosen people from the whole world & this town,we can be seeing reproduction one room of Kronenhalle that his mother began in the '20s that was most snobbish restaurant in Zurich .
The next room of space where there harks back to then so much prosperity.
After, the rush of the great archives of ABRAHAM.
The group works to establish their couturier to use them at the time.
Worked with the greatest couturiers,C.Balenciaga, Lanvin, C.Dior, YSL., Valentino, J.Fath,C.Lacroix, Bill Blass, James Galanos ,Geoffrey Beene,and so on.
Also,CdG was & Diane P. ,when she was real designer in N.Y.

Yes, this exhibition of my eyes, "What this means elegance?", Respectively.
I learned a lot of things in this exhibition it was.
Also,the elegance of this well or was it something that is lived at that time varies depending on age and women.
As a result, companies have a noble dignity silk print high aesthetics, ABRAHAM could have come to understand the cause of closing that glorious gate in '96.

The present age "what this means elegance?", The things that had to be completely change in quality,so quick.
In the modern luxury was not born on the real character and dignity, It's only a virtual image of vanity was put on the consuming society.
It 's the only gold-plated elegance!.

And,at the end corner there was an exhibition of student works was very disappointing.
That's extra too bad taste for me,so sorry.
To face such that it exhibits the elegance, which I have rather a lot of pictures made at the golden time of their couturier?
Maybe this is the essence of the museum curator, was not out of this ABRAHAM understand and sour herring?
Or,did not understand the elegance out of herself?
Or, that's only rip-service?

However,this exhibition of ABRAHAM is imbued with elegance at the time of bursting & full of the Monsieur Swiss Silk King Gustav Zumsteg's an aesthetic senses for his great mother,Madame Hulda & her noble restraint
Kronenhalle.

Thank you very much for great your aesthetic senses the Monsieur Gustav Zumsteg.

21 Oct.'10 in Zurich.
TAKE.Hirakawa:
******

Comme des Garcons Pinky Robe, knocked down for 8,500 euros!!

The Comme des Garcons Pinky Robe, knocked down for 8,500 euros.

As for the auction performed in the collection season of this town, many Yohji and Comme des Garcons were exhibited.
It was exhibited elsewhere by Alaia,Balenciaga,Jean-Paul Gaultie, Christian Louboutin,Maison Martin Margiela,Y.S.L.and UNDR COVE, it, too.

This auction took about 5 hours with quantity to amount to 500 pieces more, and it was performed.
There was around 30~40 participants in an auction place on this day.
And five phone lines were prepared for.

That value in the Comme des Garcons was high was proved at this auction that many Japanese designers,
Yohji and Comme des Garcons were over.

It began, and a big wave came in around 10 minutes.
A Pinky robe taken for collection two years ago when I still remembered it,
that was made a bid for 8,500 euros.

In addition, the value of a new fashion was born in this auction house.

The big wave happened in nothing for the later around 4 hours.

It is said that the master of this successful bidder who competed on the telephone is
one of an American art museum.

The successful bid price of Yohji was 2,000 euros from an average of 200 euros.
And, as for the thing of the foreign designer, they were knocked down with a market from 200 euros to 500 euros .
The later CdG had ended at a total market successful bid price from 500 euros to 1,500 euros ended.

MODE NIPPONNE by ARTCURIAL.
Lundi 4 October '10 a 14h~
PARIS=hotel DROUOT-salle7
9 rue Drouot Paris:

COMME des GARCONS とDIANE ARBUSそして、LISETTE MODEL: 激しく生きた二人の女性写真家たち。 ２０１１春夏パリコレクションから；

It was so sorry, I'm trying to translate English now.

　『　今シーズンの巴里のコレクションはビジネス状況とその世界が生んだヴァニティな環境によって閉塞感が大きく感じられる。
そんな中でのこのブランドのコレクション論理は正論であり的を得た手法である。
　今シーズンは、より激しく、何ものにも囚われない自己を中心とした自由と端正と厳格の日常性が生んだ強い美が感じられたコレクションだった。

　COMME des GARCONSブランドのコレクションはこの街の、この時期に見ると変わらずの異端と異形を放つ。
この”異端さと異形さ”。これが強く、大きければ大きい程にこの街へ来る
それなりのジャーナリストやメディアに強く評価される。
その答えはこの街が培い、維持して来た生活の中の美しさと精神のバランスである
”ELEGANCE”というボキャブラリィーとの対峙作用が評論の論格となるからである。

　”前衛”／”Avant-garde"とは何か？
このコレクションを見て改めて、疑問に想い考え始めた。

　”異端と異形”がそれを生む一つである事には変わりがない。
しかし、それだけでは”前衛”／”Avant-garde”ではない。
そこには、何か未来を彷彿させ、訴える新しさのコンテンツと激しい心意気と悶えが在るはずだ。
若輩者たちは自分たちの時代観からそのコンテンツに共感し、
その激しさと悶えを感じ取り自分たちも其処へ委ねる影響や新たな道筋を求め，
彼らたちが迎え来る時代の新しさへと通じる。
これが僕には余り強く感じられなかった。

しかし、”前衛”／”Avant-garde"も現代のような
PCをメディア生活と造形の基盤とした時代性を背景に変質してしまったようだ。
総てが”バーチャルな世界観へと”。
　
　最近のこのCOMME des GARCONSブランドのショーを見ていると
このデザイナーしか発せられない創造のボキャブラリィーとしての
見事で厳格な『”前衛”／”Avant-garde"のアイロニィー』としか読めない。
しかし、それは変わらず、誰よりも強く美しい。
失礼だが、このデザイナーの年齢を感じさせない総てが存在している。
これだけでも賛辞を贈る。
そして、このデザイナーとブランドチームが持ち得た総てを使っての
創造力と集中力には恐怖さえ感じる。
過去の自身の作品のアーカイブの再構築化と
そこらから儲けた資金力のパワーの使い方である。
しかし、残念乍ら、ここには明日を訴えるボキャブラリィーは聞き取れ難かった。

　ショーの最後で種明かしが為されてしまったと感じた。
僕の好きな写真家，Lisette ModelとDiane Arbusを見てしまった。
’４０年代を代表する二人のユダヤ系アメリカ人女性写真家である。
最後にはダイアンの代表作品集"An Perture Monograph"を感じたのだ。
Diane Arbusが影響を受けた写真家がA.ザンダーであり、Lisette Modelである。

　ここ迄読むと、昨年，２月迄、
ミラノの10コルソコモのギャラリィーで開催された写真展『Lisette Model and Her Successors』
そして、去年の秋から今年はじめ迄この街、
巴里のjeu-de-paume写真美術館で行なわれた『Lisette Model回顧展』

　この激しく自分の世界観時代を逆風として、
正直に強く生き抜いた二人のユダヤ人写真家たちの
いぶし銀の様な存在感と生き様に共感してのコレクションだったのであろう。

　ここに決して、"VANITY"に溺れない川久保玲の真の姿を見た。

ありがとうございました。』
文責／平川武治：

リセットモデル／
http://www.artphoto-site.com/story77.html
http://fashionjp.net/wnext/milan/mln00027.html
　リセットモデルとその後継者たち展／「Lisette Model and Her Successors」
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/08/lisette-model-biography-jeu-de-paume-63.html
　巴里、jeu-de-paumeの展覧会

ダイアン アーヴァス／
http://www.artphoto-site.com/story77.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7BE9C11548-26E7-431C-9F83-03E1EBC758CD%7D
N.Y.メトロポリタン美術館で開催された展覧会。/3~5月 '05/"Revelations"

The Requiem. It was so cool DVD -Nemeth 2

The Requiem. It was so cool DVD -Nemeth 1

" As for his great achievement, an underground performance and a mode and the fusion of the street were very grand.
It is a very disappointing thing that fashion people do not recognize the great achievement. " by Jun TAKAHASHI/UNDER COVER:

『　彼の偉業はアンダーグラウンドとモード、そしてストリートの融合、とても偉大でした。
その偉業をファッションピープルが認識していないのはとても残念な事です。　』　　高橋盾／UNDERCOVER

In Memory of Christopher Nemeth,

It had know the news from a friend.
Immediately
It was unbelievable.
Tough, but believing.

From a distance,
We sincerely pray for you.

I am deeply saddened at the death of Christopher Nemeth.

For me, the deep
I can respect as a human creator.
With kindness and stubbornness

Be one of the best when he was making the clothes looks so cool for himself
Was really pure and charming man.
Well, he had made the all by himself,
In the space
I will never forget his smile.

By the side of Keiko,
Dog plays with his kindness and
With beer cans
When he had told about works, was too shy to speak
But he is confident that the whole,
This scene was Nemeth's for me.

In My 25-years of the mode,
Most of the people had been look to "The VANTY" world
Many people pass through him
Then, found the entrance to the Media
And flew out of to the runways

In such a world,
walking straight down on his own ways
Was of importance
Was very pure.
Therefore he was a great precious man.


"He was an amazing, influential talent".

For the Fashion-kizzy on a Harajuku Street in their 90s and
Also,CdG, J. Galliano, A. L. Mcqueen & more etc,,
People who like to dress, including me
great impression and impact of craftsmanship skill
Given influential to calm
was characteristic of really him.

He knew his whereabouts.
Stand himself and the world,
His favorite clothes, shoes, drawing,so on
Live his way
Before it was firmly believed that a load off.

"Ancient Briton"

It was the theme of his debut collection on '85 in London.
Even now, this value of an old-fashioned idea never changed
Venerable indomitable Briton spirit.
Assume craftsman mind own art
It's a one of confidence.
The romanticist who demanded that he lived purely.

Purely on their own, to live a life given,
Of course, the most difficult thing alone
Keiko and Princess of his two daughters
Have a wonderful family
A foreign country of less than 25 years that he was protected, and was spent.

In the foreign country,
really caught it to him, and how would,

The calmness that is true in heaven
Please,smoke to can beer one hand
Please,watch over your precious people

I must say again
Really so much, thank you very much.
Mr. Christopher Nemeth.

Whether,
Please your deeply sleep in full of the peaceful.

Take.HIRAKAWA/ From Ile'de France,24th.October:

Don't forget the concept of a "Wrapping Paper" by Fashion trends,anymore.

Since over 100 years that's means 200 season collections were the wrapping the body that was mainly concept of the fashion, It was too much! It was too late!! It was finished!! Seriously, the fashion concept was a kind of the "Wrapping Paper" for the "Famme Object" & "Homme Object" I think, It's one of 20 century's.

I had meet very smart idea & good concept creations collection in today 's evening at the Homme collection 2011 S/S in Paris.

His name is Rad Hourani, He had design real kind of industrial design by fashion category that's not so fresh I.D. But, he's creations are so many these of the new type of fashion philosophic idea & aesthetic sense from B.D. & Manga,basically that's the new wave of young creators one.

Rad Hourani,he said to epitomize his ideas of personality,style,& transcending beauty that does not reference a generation past,nor threaten expiration on a future.

When I saw his collection, There are so good fashion garment & has so strong his own world from classical imaged to the future minds already, that's I like so much. What's means a so good fashion garment? My answer is the technology for the fashion garment, It's a very point of realty, so I said his design is like a Industrial designs,It's one of the new functionalism in the fashions.

We must think about the fashion new technology that means not only human technology also,think about science technology for the body & fashion,too. Almost, the fashion peoples,they can think about a technology are materials so much that very important ideas of the fashion but, not only that. Also, we must has ideas of a new technology for fashion garment & the body expansions,too.
It's way of idea means not a only the "wrapping paper" has function, the function will be become a wrapping paper for new humanism without sex, that's the very cool & smart ideas for the soon.

"He had design the new type of a mobile telephone's !!"
That's my point of view.
Thank you so much Rad Hourani!!
www.radhourani.com
Wrote by TAKE. Hirakawa:

Two weeks ago,It was such a spring sunshine near my house in Kamakura.
I was lying & smelling on the earth.
I could talk to raise the winds,thank you so much!

Think of my Tokyo collection '10/'11 (A&H) because it looks after. In place of the Tokyo Collections criticism,

『　I want you to design the culture expressing the civilization.

You who is given life, and is made the best use of.
You seem to be you as the foothold and it wants you to design the culture expressing the civilization for the world necessary for the thing made the best use of the outlook on the world of me who builds it up. You the origin of your own sense of values.　Even if it is clothes,　』 by TAKE.Hirakawa:

『　I want you to design the culture expressing the civilization.

You who is given life, and is made the best use of.
You seem to be you as the foothold and it wants you to design the culture expressing the civilization for the world necessary for the thing made the best use of the outlook on the world of me who builds it up. You the origin of your own sense of values.　Even if it is clothes,　』

What is "CARE/CURE" ? The theme for the next generation. / From my Archive Article:

I had write this article for special issue of the LePli;
It's writing about the Future's Fashion after the "WRAPPING & PROTECTION"

When you finish your studies at your college and dive into the fashion industry as a professional, what will your work be like? What aspects will become important for you? How will couture, from the high fashion to high street, evolve in the future? To answer this question, I would like to suggest a new theme for a new generation, an idea that could be the source of inspiration, the foundation of your work.

And this foundation is "CARE/CURE". Itﾕs a concept that overlays the current theme of "PROTECT/PROTECTION", a theme which, in itself, is inherently self-limiting. This new theme, a radical concept of co-existence, is based on the principle of connecting with each other instead of isolating ourselves as a means of protection. As people nurture their relationships with others, so we become more empathic. There is a sense of connectivity, how we relate to each other. So, keeping in mind this notion of what I call "relationally", we move to the concept of "CARE/CURE", meaning "where there is care there is healing".

It is essential for those who have achieved a good life in a thriving society to feel secure, safe and well in order to maintain their important "relativity". I would like to propose the concept that wearing clothes and the reality itself will offer "CARE/CURE" for society where your future customers will put on clothes that make them feel "secure", "safe", and "well".

Text by Takeji Hirakawa
Translated by Chieko Bury

La Hommage for the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in Paris. By my Archive on June 2nd '08

"Yves saint Laurent passed away.
And finally with his passing the last of the great names has gone.

May he rest in peace.

You have worked for a long time.
And you worked well.
You are the one who made me truly understand
what the ﾒElegance of Parisﾓ meant .
I thank you.

You shone.
You were the brightest star that ultimately burnt out in the end.

Those of us who are left behind should reveal our ugliness.ﾓ


He was precocious, too.

With his ingenious foresight, he charged through the world of fashion.
His legs, once so beautiful and slender tripped on unfamiliar ground.


No matter how much I try, I canﾕt like K.L.
Itﾕs not a matter of taste, I think.
I canﾕt help comparing him to Yves saint Laurent.
Why on earth did P. Berge, who had been dumped by Bernard Buffet, manage to find such a good-looking man of such caliber?
I read a book.
　
Cocteau said that Berge would come to visit him at a bankerﾕs holiday house in the South of France, where Cocteau was staying, along with his boyfriend. His boyfriend was once Bernard Buffet. But this time, Berge brought ﾒa young man too beautifulﾓ in place of Buffet.

I trust Bergerﾕs ability to understand beauty.
And I cannot like K.L. no matter what.
The difference is simply too big.


In the mid 50ﾕs when the world was recovering from of WWII,
This inconceivably beautiful man who was hiding his talent in his sleeve emerged in the city.
Equipped with the precociousness that stabs ﾒbeautyﾓ and ﾒfreedomﾓ with ﾒtalentﾓ, he met three men who he was destined to meet.
Michel de Brunoff, Christian Dior, and then later Pierre Berge




May, 1968.
There was a growing wave of revolution.
The events of 40 years ago are still connected to everything new in Paris and France.
It was not only a mere political phenomenon.
It changed the ﾒrelationalityﾓ of men and women, the way they lived, how they connected themselves to the society, their life styles, their morale, and fashion industry itself.
Yves Saint-Laurent Rive Gauche opened two years prior to these events on the left bank of the Seine.
Caught up in the maelstrom of May 68, the world turned to the culture movement.
The world of Paris fashion was released from the secluded upper class strictures and witnessed the birth of "ready-to-wear".
"Yves Saint-Laurent Rive Gauche" pioneered new generation.


Today, the shelves of the book shops of this city are filled with books about "May 68“.
M.Sarkozy was one of the reactionaries.
This is its 40th aniversary.

In the midst of such a trend,
he was gone.
Never to come back.

That precocious aesthetic boy who was to run through the world with his quick legs somehow realized that he had taken a wrong way.
And he found himself uneasy.



Rest.
Now you can rest.
Rest and sleep deeply.
Recall the time when you were young and mature,
And the time you had no time to sleep.
Recall the blaze of the Sun.
Please rest in peace.



This city taught me ﾒeleganceﾓ.
You are the one who let me smell the scent.

I truly pay my last respects, for evermore.

　“Going on means going far. Going far means returning."　

Takeji Hirakawa
Original Dawn of June 2nd 2008/

PS;

It ended.
One era certainly ended.
And
Times certainly changed.
If he had not come to this city,
the fashion industry of this city would have remained in the old, the restricted.

The birth of ready-to-wear would have been delayed.



We must hurry.
Hurry and find new values.
We must find the new values of the world of fashion.

A baby must have been born somewhere,
who is
precocious
beautiful
quick to run away
and can successfully be the icon of an age.

I see a shooting star.

After the personal media-We had so changed the value of Media and more, that after the Twitter & Blogger,

The level of their nous falls surely, and people's thought becomes so shallow that we assume that twitter, a blog and netsite appear as new personal media when those begin to be floating in POP society inconsistently, and many people use those.

And it probably becomes a lot that I trust to the sense, feeling and a judgement only of my hedonic aspect at future consumer society.

Maybe this was one of "utopia" phenomena of the people who have begun also not to correct catching and to structure consumer society in an early stage.
Because an individual doesn't have an opinion, and it's the world which can be able to live on only a twitter at consumer society.

How does the role of the media change when such an age generalizes?

For instance, what change takes place concretely in the world of the mode?

Does it arise over there of "Micro-POP" and does new value arise in the world of this mode?

For instance, is the episode that "Trinity" in a new age in a real world, the world of the image, and the virtual world is new created?

The image that has been universalized doesn't give birth to the reality.

What episode can the brand maison and the designer have?

It becomes the value relation of a new fashion business to relate about "Original tableau and postcard".

We had so changed the value of Media and more, that after the Twitter & Blogger,

　The daily development such as Blogger, Twitter as the new media brings "personal of the media". As a result, conventional "pop" is not a big lump and expresses a short-lived phenomenon by this "personal of the media" and begins to become "micro-pop".

　Possibly the former scenery and "the 20th century utopia" that is near to the ruins that went to ruin begin to be seen in future when this "micro-pop" evolves more over there?
The idea of the movie "silent green" will be regarded as the depopulation of world city "Tokio" the example, too.

　It cannot have the economic power that was able to already include bubble economic conditions until now when I thought about economic conditions at world level in future of Tokyo. In addition, it will not be the first city given priority in Asia. And Tokyo of the future has scarcity value to be able to show ex-the 20th century（?） It will become only "Ex. Bubbly & vanity city" in the real high-public consumption society.

Therefore, the Tokyo of the future will has been restorations for an idea of "the sightseeing modern historical city". "The sightseeing nation" which at last the government has begun to insist on here will be becoming it and reason to fall into line.

　In our Japan is full of beautiful cities.
For example,Kyoto,Nara also, Akihabara.
The Akihabara in Tokyo there is a Mecca & melting pot of the Otaku-cultures in the world that real new Japonezm of the high-public consumption society. This will be the new scenes which assumed Tokyo a tourist attraction, in fact.

"The POP" was the word that British artist, Richard-Hamilton, he made the concept for his works in '58.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamilton_
http://7inch.dubstronica.com/post/181561711/pop-art-is
After his this prediction "POP", went over to the N.Y. And it was worked into the advertisement business world that had begun to develop,it was so smart, and this contents of the modern society structure called "the public consumption society" in those days afterwards.

And this is inherited in Andy Warhol, and himself had become the Icon of the media & the POP of beginning of " the public consumption society". He was so clever gay. Then "POP"="the public consumption society" developed with power of the media almost the present.

Therefore, It's nothing but that this structure itself becomes extinct that "POP "=" public consumption society" becomes an ephemeral thing.

(continue next,)

I'm flattered to be invited,

Hi,Dear Hussein;
Thanks a lot for invite me for your opening.
It was so nice & so happy to see you,again Also,It was congratulations!!
That exhibition is great & cool.

I had feel,you is you & still perfectionist & charming character but, had gained weight very much,Hussein.(Did you make money so lot,already?? That's great!!)

My opinion of the exhibition are,
Those contents already felt slightly old that means, when time passes,those the critical mind to let you feel each times loses an image.
However,like a this exhibition are very important for fashion business in future that mean the image no more making a realty,the realty will be making a image also,everybody can be making image,in fact. So, how to make to set up continuity for your brand identity?
As for the fashion business what kind of way of technique is necessary in future?
For my thought,the future fashion business where are going ?that It's a relationship between " The original tableaus & the post-cards",that's only.
" The original tableaus & the post-cards", their need the box. The box means the museum will be making that relationship,It's very important & so useful for that because,
the box will be make the episode for your brand future that's so much important more than image,in fact.
The episode are memory of the realty,that's not a image.
The your brand had make a so hight quality & so great original tableaus by your sophisticated cultures,already, that's really the brand Hussein Chalayan!
So I can believe & respect you,Hussein.
Anyway,I had so much curiosity from your exhibition in this time, thank you so much,again!!
04th. April '10:

Before starting my diary, my gaze are,

Talking from my experience,
”I came to this city,Paris 25 years,already.
Eventually things learned through mode, and the original creation of human beings can make human beings have had nothing but inspiration and depth of experiential learning and personal freedom. 

Creating a sense of balance is the essence of good sense and intellectual level of freedom and humanity have earned it. 
Therefore, the collection and I have the opportunity to discover its essence is very happy. This is a generation or nationality or gender, and its creator, is the fundamental thing I ignored the time. This is certainly one of the great happyness act as a human being.Thank you so much.”


On 31st. March/ The cherry trees are about to blossom,soon in Kamakura.
From TAKE.

Talking from my experience,
”I came to this city,Paris 25 years,already.
Eventually things learned through mode, and the original creation of human beings can make human beings have had nothing but inspiration and depth of experiential learning and personal freedom. 

Creating a sense of balance is the essence of good sense and intellectual level of freedom and humanity have earned it. 
Therefore, the collection and I have the opportunity to discover its essence is very happy. This is a generation or nationality or gender, and its creator, is the fundamental thing I ignored the time. This is certainly one of the great happyness act as a human being.Thank you so much.”