Activities | KLEINSTEIN

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2026.05.08 ESSAY

GQ Japan April Issue | Virgil Abloh, Tourist in the Fashion World

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2026.04.04 APPEARANCE

DANCHI RADIO – Thinking Through the Current State of the Luxury Industry in 2026

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2026.02.08 APPEARANCE

DANCHI RADIO – Gosha Rubchinskiy and the Current State of Japanese Domestic Brands

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2025.08.28 INTERVIEW

TOKYO ART BEAT – Is Fashion Important for Artists in the Age of Social Media?

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2025.08.05 INTERVIEW

“Is fashion art?” – Interview with Valerie Steele by Yusuke Koishi

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2025.05.17 INTERVIEW

STUDY MAGAZINE 10 | Why Hedi Slimane Survive in the Fashion Industry

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2025.01.03 TALK

LA MUSEUM YouTube #2 “Was Yves Saint Laurent Truly a Titan? Why the Press Crowned Him the Emperor of Haute Couture” — Contextual reflections with Yusuke Koishi | Part II

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2024.12.27 TALK

LA MUSEUM YouTube #1 “From the University of Tokyo – Science/Engineering background to Fashion: Yusuke Koishi on Where Fashion Stands Now — Part I”

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2024.10.29 INTERVIEW

ÉKRITS | Conversation with Philosopher Kazeto Shimonishi: “Reality Around Philosophy and Fashion”

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2024.01.09 LECTURE

Guest Lecture for “Art Theory” at the University of Tokyo

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2023.10.20 INTERVIEW

PEN | What is happening in the world of fashion? Explaining the dramatic movements of the past decade

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2023.10.16 ESSAY

GQ JAPAN October Issue | What Is ‘Quiet Luxury’ Sweeping Through Fashion?

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2023.03.28 WRITING

Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century: After Arakawa and Madeline Gins

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2022.01.20 CRITIQUE

FASHIONSNAP.COM | Virgil Abloh and Kanye West: Walking the Streets Extended to the Internet

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2021.07.07 ESSAY / CRITIQUE

Bungakukai August 2021 Issue “Sign, Fashion, Critique, Postgendai”

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2021.03.31 APPEARANCE

Hanatsubaki 2021 Spring/Summer No. 828 — What Will You Transcend?

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2021.03.01 FEATURE

EU-JAPAN CENTRE – NOVESTA is now the most popular Slovak product in Japan

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2021.01.20 TALK

Notebook on Fashion and Society Part 2: What we talk about when we talk about China

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2020.12.15 APPEARANCE

BRUTUS No.930 KEY BOOK for thinking about the next “world”

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2019.12.25 WRITING

Dover Street Market New York, Arakawa + Gins, and Me

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2019.11.14 APPEARANCE

The New Horizons of Art: Exploring the Boundaries of Life, Body, and Society

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2019.04.18 APPEARANCE

GENRON – CONTENPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE SCENE THROUGH FASHION – IN SEARCH OF THE POST-USSR NATIONAL IDENTITY OF RUSSIA

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2019.03.24 APPEARANCE

STUDIO VOICE VOL 414. “SELF-FASHIONING FROM ASIA”

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2019.01.19 APPEARANCE

“QUOTATION” FASHION ISSUE 2019SS

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2018.12.21 APPEARANCE

Why is the world so crazy about street culture?

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2018.10.28 MEDIA

“RECONSIDER THE MEANING OF FASHION WEEK” – FASHIONSNAP.COM

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2018.10.23 APPEARANCE

TREND / SEMIOSIS / MODALITY

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2018.09.15 ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#8 “Local, Global, In-Between”

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2018.01.21 APPEARANCE

ART LAB AICHI – DIALOGUE WITH KAZUHISA TODAYAMA

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2017.09.15 ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#6 “Everyone Is in Need of a Dark Space Again”

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2017.07.17 INTERVIEW

WWD – Tokyo Street Fashion Gets the Blahs

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2017.05.24 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR FASHION IN TOKYO

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2017.05.24 APPEARANCE

FASHION IN TOKYO

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2017.04.28 INTERVIEW

THE BUSINESS OF FASHION – Japan Wants More Fashion Designers from Abroad

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2017.04.26 REVIEW

How Comme des Garçons Made the Non-Trivial Ordinary

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2017.04.24 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

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2017.03.01 CRITIQUE

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#5 “NEXT DECADE / From the Periphery to the Near Field”

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2016.12.19 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

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2016.10.01 ESSAY / CRITIQUE

ÉKRITS “Fashion, Discretized Human and Its Modality”

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2016.09.01 ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#4 “A Sense of Continental Culture”

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2016.07.02 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

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2016.03.01 INTERVIEW

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 “NEW MIND NEW LOOK” INTERVIEWS WITH FALSE IDOLZ, SEAN BAKER, RAFAËL ROSENDAAL, BEN LERNER

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2016.03.01 EDITORIAL

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 EDITORIAL “NEW MIND / NEW LOOK”

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2016.02.01 ESSAY

Bungakukai February 2016 Issue

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2016.01.30 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO FUKUOKA

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2015.10.05 TALK

LIVE TALK AT SmartNews Inc. “ALAN TURING”

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2015.10.01 WRITING

HONZ

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2015.09.23 EVENT

“HOW TO UPATE FASHION” AT B&B BOOKSTORE

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2015.09.01 ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Giorgio Armani: Forty Years, Origins, and Scenery”

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2015.09.01 ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Helmut Lang: A Story”

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2015.09.01 EDITORIAL / ESSAY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 EDITORIAL PROJECT “UNOBITUARIES OF HEROES”: 山岡鐵舟 / 内田樹, アラン・チューリング / 森田真生, 荒川修作 / 小石祐介, 林文浩 / 鈴木親, 青木昌彦 / 成田悠輔

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2015.06.06 LECTURE

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

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2015.03.01 INTERVIEW / EDITORIAL

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#1 INTERVIEW / EDITORIAL

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2015.01.01 INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW BY FASHION HEADLINE

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2014.12.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #7 — Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Trilogy

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2014.11.01 MEDIA

DAZED AND CONFUSED

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2014.05.22 EVENT

BIOTOPOGICAL SCALE JUGGLING ESCALATOR AT DOVER STREET MARKET NEW YORK

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2013.12.01 INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW FOR ADORN AND PORTRAY BY NOON PASSAMA

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2013.03.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #6 — Ken Suzuki’s The Smooth Society and Its Enemies

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2012.11.18 EVENT

CONCERT OF MATHEMATICS

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2012.11.17 TALK

FUTURE OF NEXT GENERATION – OPEN TALK AT ASAHI CULTURE CENTER, OSAKA

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2012.09.03 TALK

LIVE TALK AT SUNSET-LIVE ITOSHIMA, FUKUOKA

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2012.06.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #5 — TEMA HIMA: The Art of Living in Tohoku

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2012.04.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #4 — Roland Barthes on Mode

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2012.03.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #3 — After 3.11: Prayer and Its Shadow

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2011.12.10 INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW BY TV-BROS – WARASHIBE MAD SCIENTIST

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2011.12.01 WRITING

STUDIOVOICE #2 — Beyond Documentation: Street Life and Seven Photographers of Europe

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2011.11.19 TALK

LIVE TALK AT DESIGNER’S VILLEGE, TOKYO

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2011.01.01 WRITING

TALKS, LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, APPEARANCES, AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS BY KLEINSTEIN.

GQ Japan April Issue | Virgil Abloh, Tourist in the Fashion World

DANCHI RADIO – Thinking Through the Current State of the Luxury Industry in 2026

DANCHI RADIO – Gosha Rubchinskiy and the Current State of Japanese Domestic Brands

TOKYO ART BEAT – Is Fashion Important for Artists in the Age of Social Media?

“Is fashion art?” – Interview with Valerie Steele by Yusuke Koishi

STUDY MAGAZINE 10 | Why Hedi Slimane Survive in the Fashion Industry

LA MUSEUM YouTube #2 “Was Yves Saint Laurent Truly a Titan? Why the Press Crowned Him the Emperor of Haute Couture” — Contextual reflections with Yusuke Koishi | Part II

LA MUSEUM YouTube #1 “From the University of Tokyo – Science/Engineering background to Fashion: Yusuke Koishi on Where Fashion Stands Now — Part I”

ÉKRITS | Conversation with Philosopher Kazeto Shimonishi: “Reality Around Philosophy and Fashion”

Guest Lecture for “Art Theory” at the University of Tokyo

PEN | What is happening in the world of fashion? Explaining the dramatic movements of the past decade

GQ JAPAN October Issue | What Is ‘Quiet Luxury’ Sweeping Through Fashion?

Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century: After Arakawa and Madeline Gins

FASHIONSNAP.COM | Virgil Abloh and Kanye West: Walking the Streets Extended to the Internet

Bungakukai August 2021 Issue “Sign, Fashion, Critique, Postgendai”

Hanatsubaki 2021 Spring/Summer No. 828 — What Will You Transcend?

EU-JAPAN CENTRE – NOVESTA is now the most popular Slovak product in Japan

Notebook on Fashion and Society Part 2: What we talk about when we talk about China

BRUTUS No.930 KEY BOOK for thinking about the next “world”

Dover Street Market New York, Arakawa + Gins, and Me

The New Horizons of Art: Exploring the Boundaries of Life, Body, and Society

GENRON – CONTENPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE SCENE THROUGH FASHION – IN SEARCH OF THE POST-USSR NATIONAL IDENTITY OF RUSSIA

STUDIO VOICE VOL 414. “SELF-FASHIONING FROM ASIA”

“QUOTATION” FASHION ISSUE 2019SS

Why is the world so crazy about street culture?

“RECONSIDER THE MEANING OF FASHION WEEK” – FASHIONSNAP.COM

TREND / SEMIOSIS / MODALITY

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#8 “Local, Global, In-Between”

ART LAB AICHI – DIALOGUE WITH KAZUHISA TODAYAMA

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#6 “Everyone Is in Need of a Dark Space Again”

WWD – Tokyo Street Fashion Gets the Blahs

LECTURE FOR FASHION IN TOKYO

FASHION IN TOKYO

THE BUSINESS OF FASHION – Japan Wants More Fashion Designers from Abroad

How Comme des Garçons Made the Non-Trivial Ordinary

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#5 “NEXT DECADE / From the Periphery to the Near Field”

LECTURE FOR TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

ÉKRITS “Fashion, Discretized Human and Its Modality”

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#4 “A Sense of Continental Culture”

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 “NEW MIND NEW LOOK” INTERVIEWS WITH FALSE IDOLZ, SEAN BAKER, RAFAËL ROSENDAAL, BEN LERNER

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 EDITORIAL “NEW MIND / NEW LOOK”

Bungakukai February 2016 Issue

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO FUKUOKA

LIVE TALK AT SmartNews Inc. “ALAN TURING”

HONZ

“HOW TO UPATE FASHION” AT B&B BOOKSTORE

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Giorgio Armani: Forty Years, Origins, and Scenery”

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Helmut Lang: A Story”

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 EDITORIAL PROJECT “UNOBITUARIES OF HEROES”: 山岡鐵舟 / 内田樹, アラン・チューリング / 森田真生, 荒川修作 / 小石祐介, 林文浩 / 鈴木親, 青木昌彦 / 成田悠輔

LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO

FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#1 INTERVIEW / EDITORIAL

INTERVIEW BY FASHION HEADLINE

STUDIOVOICE #7 — Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Trilogy

DAZED AND CONFUSED

BIOTOPOGICAL SCALE JUGGLING ESCALATOR AT DOVER STREET MARKET NEW YORK

INTERVIEW FOR ADORN AND PORTRAY BY NOON PASSAMA

STUDIOVOICE #6 — Ken Suzuki’s The Smooth Society and Its Enemies

CONCERT OF MATHEMATICS

FUTURE OF NEXT GENERATION – OPEN TALK AT ASAHI CULTURE CENTER, OSAKA

LIVE TALK AT SUNSET-LIVE ITOSHIMA, FUKUOKA

STUDIOVOICE #5 — TEMA HIMA: The Art of Living in Tohoku

STUDIOVOICE #4 — Roland Barthes on Mode

STUDIOVOICE #3 — After 3.11: Prayer and Its Shadow

INTERVIEW BY TV-BROS – WARASHIBE MAD SCIENTIST

STUDIOVOICE #2 — Beyond Documentation: Street Life and Seven Photographers of Europe

LIVE TALK AT DESIGNER’S VILLEGE, TOKYO

STUDIOVOICE #1 — Dialogue and Crossing Borders: Werner Heisenberg’s The Part and the Whole