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Omotesando / Minami-Aoyama / Tokyo
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TALKS, LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, APPEARANCES, AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS BY KLEINSTEIN.
01
2026.08.25
APPEARANCE
DANCHI RADIO – How sacai Exported the Grammar of Japan to the World, in Conversation with Daisuke Gemma
02
2026.05.08
ESSAY
GQ Japan April Issue | Virgil Abloh, Tourist in the Fashion World
03
2026.04.04
APPEARANCE
DANCHI RADIO – Thinking Through the Current State of the Luxury Industry in 2026
04
2026.02.08
APPEARANCE
DANCHI RADIO – Gosha Rubchinskiy and the Current State of Japanese Domestic Brands
05
2025.08.28
INTERVIEW
TOKYO ART BEAT – Is Fashion Important for Artists in the Age of Social Media?
06
2025.08.05
INTERVIEW
“Is fashion art?” – Interview with Valerie Steele by Yusuke Koishi
07
2025.05.17
INTERVIEW
STUDY MAGAZINE 10 | Why Hedi Slimane Survive in the Fashion Industry
08
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
09
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”
10
2024.10.29
INTERVIEW
ÉKRITS | Conversation with Philosopher Kazeto Shimonishi: “Reality Around Philosophy and Fashion”
11
2024.01.09
LECTURE
Guest Lecture for “Art Theory” at the University of Tokyo
12
2023.10.20
INTERVIEW
PEN | What is happening in the world of fashion? Explaining the dramatic movements of the past decade
13
2023.10.16
ESSAY
GQ JAPAN October Issue | What Is ‘Quiet Luxury’ Sweeping Through Fashion?
14
2023.03.28
WRITING
Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century: After Arakawa and Madeline Gins
15
2023.02.14
WRITING
Diversity and Creativity in the Digital Society: Gender, Media, Art, and Fashion
16
2022.01.20
CRITIQUE
FASHIONSNAP.COM | Virgil Abloh and Kanye West: Walking the Streets Extended to the Internet
17
2021.07.07
ESSAY / CRITIQUE
Bungakukai August 2021 Issue “Sign, Fashion, Critique, Postgendai”
18
2021.03.31
APPEARANCE
Hanatsubaki 2021 Spring/Summer No. 828 — What Will You Transcend?
19
2021.03.01
FEATURE
EU-JAPAN CENTRE – NOVESTA is now the most popular Slovak product in Japan
20
2021.01.20
TALK
Notebook on Fashion and Society Part 2: What we talk about when we talk about China
21
2020.12.15
APPEARANCE
BRUTUS No.930 KEY BOOK for thinking about the next “world”
22
2019.12.25
WRITING
Dover Street Market New York, Arakawa + Gins, and Me
23
2019.11.15
TALK
Daily Life, Identity, Media: New Frontiers of Fashion Interrogating Boundaries
24
2019.04.18
APPEARANCE
GENRON – CONTENPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE SCENE THROUGH FASHION – IN SEARCH OF THE POST-USSR NATIONAL IDENTITY OF RUSSIA
25
2019.03.24
APPEARANCE
STUDIO VOICE VOL 414. “SELF-FASHIONING FROM ASIA”
26
2019.01.19
APPEARANCE
“QUOTATION” FASHION ISSUE 2019SS
27
2018.12.21
APPEARANCE
Why is the world so crazy about street culture?
28
2018.10.28
MEDIA
“RECONSIDER THE MEANING OF FASHION WEEK” – FASHIONSNAP.COM
29
2018.10.23
APPEARANCE
TREND / SEMIOSIS / MODALITY
30
2018.09.15
ESSAY
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#8 “Local, Global, In-Between”
31
2018.01.21
APPEARANCE
ART LAB AICHI – DIALOGUE WITH KAZUHISA TODAYAMA
32
2017.09.15
ESSAY
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#6 “Everyone Is in Need of a Dark Space Again”
33
2017.07.17
INTERVIEW
WWD – Tokyo Street Fashion Gets the Blahs
34
2017.05.24
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR FASHION IN TOKYO
35
2017.05.24
APPEARANCE
FASHION IN TOKYO
36
2017.04.28
INTERVIEW
THE BUSINESS OF FASHION – Japan Wants More Fashion Designers from Abroad
37
2017.04.26
REVIEW
How Comme des Garçons Made the Non-Trivial Ordinary
38
2017.04.24
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO
39
2017.03.01
CRITIQUE
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#5 “NEXT DECADE / From the Periphery to the Near Field”
40
2016.12.19
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
41
2016.10.01
ESSAY / CRITIQUE
ÉKRITS “Fashion, Discretized Human and Its Modality”
42
2016.09.01
ESSAY
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#4 “A Sense of Continental Culture”
43
2016.07.02
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO
44
2016.03.01
INTERVIEW
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 “NEW MIND NEW LOOK” INTERVIEWS WITH FALSE IDOLZ, SEAN BAKER, RAFAËL ROSENDAAL, BEN LERNER
45
2016.03.01
EDITORIAL
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 EDITORIAL “NEW MIND / NEW LOOK”
46
2016.02.01
ESSAY
Bungakukai February 2016 Issue
47
2016.01.30
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO FUKUOKA
48
2015.10.05
TALK
LIVE TALK AT SmartNews Inc. “ALAN TURING”
49
2015.10.01
WRITING
HONZ
50
2015.09.23
EVENT
“HOW TO UPATE FASHION” AT B&B BOOKSTORE
51
2015.09.01
ESSAY
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Giorgio Armani: Forty Years, Origins, and Scenery”
52
2015.09.01
ESSAY
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#2 “Helmut Lang: A Story”
53
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
54
2015.06.06
LECTURE
LECTURE FOR COCONOGACCO
55
2015.03.01
INTERVIEW / EDITORIAL
FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#1 INTERVIEW / EDITORIAL
56
2015.01.01
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW BY FASHION HEADLINE
57
2014.12.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #7 — Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Trilogy
58
2014.11.01
MEDIA
DAZED AND CONFUSED
59
2014.05.22
EVENT
BIOTOPOGICAL SCALE JUGGLING ESCALATOR AT DOVER STREET MARKET NEW YORK
60
2013.12.01
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW FOR ADORN AND PORTRAY BY NOON PASSAMA
61
2013.03.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #6 — Ken Suzuki’s The Smooth Society and Its Enemies
62
2012.11.18
EVENT
CONCERT OF MATHEMATICS
63
2012.11.17
TALK
FUTURE OF NEXT GENERATION – OPEN TALK AT ASAHI CULTURE CENTER, OSAKA
64
2012.09.03
TALK
LIVE TALK AT SUNSET-LIVE ITOSHIMA, FUKUOKA
65
2012.06.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #5 — TEMA HIMA: The Art of Living in Tohoku
66
2012.04.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #4 — Roland Barthes on Mode
67
2012.03.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #3 — After 3.11: Prayer and Its Shadow
68
2011.12.10
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW BY TV-BROS – WARASHIBE MAD SCIENTIST
69
2011.12.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #2 — Beyond Documentation: Street Life and Seven Photographers of Europe
70
2011.11.19
TALK
LIVE TALK AT DESIGNER’S VILLEGE, TOKYO
71
2011.01.01
WRITING
STUDIOVOICE #1 — Dialogue and Crossing Borders: Werner Heisenberg’s The Part and the Whole