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2026.05.08

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

An English translation of Yusuke Koishi's GQ JAPAN style column on Virgil Abloh, the 3% rule, OFF-WHITE, Louis Vuitton, and the figure of the tourist in the fashion world.

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FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY

2025.07.10 Interview

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

2023.11.20 Interview

INTERVIEW – The Proportion of Space and Time. Rick Owens, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Ryoji Ikeda speak at the cave.

2023.06.20 Critique

Pharrell Williams: Can the Strongest Consumers Become the Strongest Creators in the Age of A.I.? (FASHIONSNAP.COM)

2022.10.06 Essay

Interview with Ben Fino-Radin (Small Data Industries): Digital Preservation and Media Conservation, Part 1

2022.02.15 Interview

Interview with Ben Fino-Radin (Small Data Industries): Digital Preservation and Media Conservation, Part 2

2022.01.20 Media

Virgil Abloh and Kanye West: Walking the Streets Extended to the Internet

2021.01.20 Critique

CREATING FUTURE – ACTION TO TAKE NEXT, The Next Landscape of Mode as Seen from the Non-Western World for Harper’s BAZAAR

2021.01.20 Essay

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

2021.01.19 Media

Post-Trump Society and the Future of Diversity in Fashion

2020.11.20 Magazine

NOT FAR#2 ECONOMY AND HISTORY FROM SNEAKERS

2020.10.28 Magazine

Notebook on Fashion and Society Part 1: The Birth of New Cultures from Crises

2020.06.10 Critique

New Humans Arise from the Collapse

2020.04.22 Critique

Fashion and pandemics – living in a world that never ends

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #6 – Resisting the World of Discretization

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #5 – Enabling “The Fashion System” with Big Data and AI

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #4 – Fashion, Religion, and Virus

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #3 – From Mode to Code

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #2 – Designing Nearby, Designing In-Distance

2019.10.20 Critique

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #1 – Fashion to Create “New Human Beings”

2019.05.01 Review

THE END OF “HEISEI” AND THE BEGINNING OF “REIWA”. THE BIRTH OF “CONTEMPORARY FASHION” AND “MACROSCOPIC FASHION DESIGN”

2019.03.30 Magazine

Essays, criticism, interviews, and commissioned writing.

Selected writing, interviews, criticism, and editorial contributions.

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY

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

INTERVIEW – The Proportion of Space and Time. Rick Owens, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Ryoji Ikeda speak at the cave.

Pharrell Williams: Can the Strongest Consumers Become the Strongest Creators in the Age of A.I.? (FASHIONSNAP.COM)

The Innovative Spirit and Panoptic Fashion Design of Issey Miyake

Interview with Dragan Espenschied (Rhizome): Internet Art Preservation, Part 1

Interview with Dragan Espenschied (Rhizome): Internet Art Preservation, Part 2

Interview with Ben Fino-Radin (Small Data Industries): Digital Preservation and Media Conservation, Part 1

Interview with Ben Fino-Radin (Small Data Industries): Digital Preservation and Media Conservation, Part 2

Virgil Abloh and Kanye West: Walking the Streets Extended to the Internet

CREATING FUTURE – ACTION TO TAKE NEXT, The Next Landscape of Mode as Seen from the Non-Western World for Harper’s BAZAAR

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

Post-Trump Society and the Future of Diversity in Fashion

NOT FAR#2 ECONOMY AND HISTORY FROM SNEAKERS

Notebook on Fashion and Society Part 1: The Birth of New Cultures from Crises

New Humans Arise from the Collapse

Fashion and pandemics – living in a world that never ends

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #6 – Resisting the World of Discretization

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #5 – Enabling “The Fashion System” with Big Data and AI

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #4 – Fashion, Religion, and Virus

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #3 – From Mode to Code

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #2 – Designing Nearby, Designing In-Distance

FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #1 – Fashion to Create “New Human Beings”

THE END OF “HEISEI” AND THE BEGINNING OF “REIWA”. THE BIRTH OF “CONTEMPORARY FASHION” AND “MACROSCOPIC FASHION DESIGN”

Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #13 – Japanese Recruit Suits and Hay Fever