Design consulting / Fashion culture / Research

A TOKYO-BASED STUDIO WORKING BETWEEN BRANDS, IDEAS, AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS.

KLEINSTEIN supports fashion and culture projects through design direction, research, writing, and critical consulting for the Japanese context.

KLEINSTEIN top page drawing

Selected Projects

PROJECTS OR (THE QUIET ART OF MAKING THINGS WORK).

BIÉDE IN MOTION

Project

BIÉDE IN MOTION

KLEINSTEIN walking illustration

Activities

PUBLIC-FACING MOVEMENTS: TALKS, PRESS, RELEASES, POP-UPS, INTERVIEWS.

奇々怪々品品団地ラジオ – 2026 ラグジュアリー業界の現在地を考える（出演者小石祐介 / STUDY MAGAZINE 長畑宏明 / 社畜ミが強い。）

奇々怪々品品団地ラジオ – ゴーシャ・ラブチンスキーとドメブラの現在地を考える（出演者小石祐介 / STUDY MAGAZINE 長畑宏明）

2025.08 INTERVIEW

TOKYO ART BEAT – SNS時代のアーティストにとって「ファッション」は重要か？

2025.07 INTERVIEW

“Is fashion art?” – Interview with Valerie Steele (Director of the FIT Museum) by Yusuke Koishi (KLEINSTEIN).

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A.I. Artificial Impotence illustration

Texts

ESSAYS, CRITICISM, INTERVIEWS, AND COMMISSIONED WRITING.

Essay series

Fashion, Discretized Human and Its Modality

A critical sequence on fashion systems, technology, bodies, religion, viruses, and the possibility of new forms of humanity.

Is fashion art? Interview with Valerie Steele by Yusuke Koishi Notebook on fashion and society Fashion and pandemics Interview with Dragan Espenschied of Rhizome on Internet Art Preservation (Part 1) Post-Trump society and diversity in fashion The innovative spirit of Issey Miyake