2025.03.12
Deciphering the Era of Marie Antoinette Through "Fashion": Clothing Specimen Creator Akira Hasegawa
How were the clothes of the era in which Marie Antoinette and Napoleon lived worn and made?
Akira Hasegawa, one of Japan's foremost collectors of 18th to 19th-century Western antique clothing, operates as a "Clothing Specimen Creator," meticulously explaining the manufacturing processes of the time by deconstructing garments. I learned about the techniques, materials, and lost craftsmanship from centuries ago.
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Akira Hasegawa
A Clothing Specimen Creator disassembles old Western garments, creating "specimens" to study the "structural beauty" and "wearability" of clothing. By drafting patterns to bring the beauty of garments from centuries ago into modern times, he turns fashion into a tangible experience. He hosts a semi-deconstructed exhibition showcasing his collection. His published work includes "あたらしい近代服飾史の教科書" (Shoeisha).
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Deconstructing Clothes from a Century Ago to Revive History
It's quite rare among collectors to be deconstructing garments.
My father made clothes himself, so I had no resistance to deconstructing garments from a young age. Later, I studied custom-tailoring for suits at a fashion vocational school. In the fashion industry, deconstruction and pattern drafting are often done to study manufacturing techniques.I entered the world of collecting during my student days when I found a "firefighter's uniform" over a hundred years old in a vintage store. When I acquired it and deconstructed it, I was so moved by its internal structure that I nearly cried.
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