Nakako Hayashi: Delivering Fashion as an Opportunity for Empowerment

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In the midst of rapid changes due to technological advancement and changes in the global environment, what are the current circumstances of fashion, including the act of making, wearing, and delivering clothes? In this special feature to commemorate the renewal of Fashion Tech News, we would like to explore the changes in the technological and social circumstances surrounding clothing and body and the future image drawn from there through interviews with five people.

PROFILE

Nakako Hayashi

A writer and editor. Her book "拡張するファッション" (2011, Space Shower Publishing) was turned into a fashion exhibition of the same name in 2014, and she supervised "Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum) in 2020. From autumn 2020, she is studying exhibition research at Central Saint Martins postgraduate in London. This year, she plans to publish a collection of interviews with artists and fashion designers, titled "つくる理由," which she has been compiling over a decade.

Today's Fashion Culture & the Environment Surrounding Clothes & the Body

Delivering from "Intimacy"

As someone who delivers fashion, my priority is to communicate from a space of "intimacy." It's crucial that people are there, and for me, that's the creators. I only want to write or speak from what I think is good about this person. For instance, I thought it was great when Susan Cianciolo picked up discarded T-shirts in the 90s, re-sewed and changed their shape, creating deconstructed T-shirts. It's because there was a person named Susan behind it. I wanted to know more about it because that person was there. I want to write about things where you can see the creator was born from an intimate place, rather than something anonymous.