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4/29/2010

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, 』

4/27/2010

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

4/20/2010

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.

4/13/2010

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".

4/12/2010

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,)

4/06/2010

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: