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.

2026.04 APPEARANCE

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

2026.02 APPEARANCE

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

2025.08 INTERVIEW

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

2025.08 INTERVIEW

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

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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