LAILA TOKIO—the Tokyo archive whose holdings have become a lodestar for curators, critics, and designers alike—welcomes our founder Yusuke Koishi to its YouTube series. Moving through the world’s first virtual museum, LA MUSEUM, Koishi and a cadre of frontline voices from fashion and contemporary art interrogate rare garments in real time, weaving them into the larger fabric of cultural history.
In this opening episode, Koishi—whose trajectory from Japan’s most storied university to the avant‑garde of style defies every tidy résumé—guides viewers through LA MUSEUM’s digital corridors. Joined by leading figures from the global art‑fashion nexus, he mines LAILA’s celebrated archive to map the seismic shifts that have shaped, and continue to shape, the fashion landscape.