In issue #02 of the free magazine ‘NOT FAR,’ produced by TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO New Balance, Yusuke Koishi contributes an insightful piece titled “Economy and History From Sneakers.”
Yusuke Koishi explores the present and future of society through the lens of fashion in this series on TOKION MAGAZINE. In the first instalment, he discusses the emergence of counter-fashion in the Trump era.
In IDEA NO.390 “Material Bindings The Savage Mind in Fashion Design”, edited by writtenafterwards, Yusuke Koishi contributed an article titled “New Humans Arise from the Collapse”. In this critical article, Koishi wrote about the possibility of new post-pandemic fashion and the history of contemporary fashion along with Comme des Garçons and LVMH empire.
A historical look back to imagine post-COVID-19 and what KLEINSTEIN is thinking about now. The original text was written in Japanese and published in FASHIONSNAP.COM on April 22, 2020. The English version is available here FASHION AND PANDEMICS – LIVING IN A WORLD THAT NEVER ENDS (KLEINSTEIN BLOG)
Yusuke Koishi contributed to an article titled “DOVER STREET MARK NEW YORK and Me and Shusaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins” for “Shusaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins in the 22nd Century (Film Art Publishing)”.
What is the scope of the “fashion” design? Fashion was a revolutionary device for hacking the world where people viewed people as symbols and signs when they could not choose how to dress or live on their own will. Now that everyone has a choice of clothes and a way of life, what can we hack into this era?
Designing Nearby, Designing In-distance (ÉKRITS, 2019)
Review on the history of contemporary fashion design and the role of conglomerates in the luxury fashion industry.
“The end of Heisei and the beginning of Reiwa. The birth of contemporary fashion and macroscopic fashion design” – FASHIONSNAP.COM
English version is available on BLOG
The review on history, and the current situation of modern fashion week.
RECONSIDER THE MEANING OF FASHION WEEK” – FASHIONSNAP.COM
“LOCAL, GLOBAL, IN-BETWEEN”
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