Rick Owens have opened their fourth store, and what is more logical than to go for Tokyo, when you are already established in Paris, New York and London? The store will carry Rick Owens, Lillies and the furniture collection
Rick Owens Tokyo Store
Tokyo 6-5-55 Minami-Aoyama,
Minato-ku,
Tokyo
ADELAIDE hosted a cocktail party for ALEXANDER WANG at the shop last week, with Ai Tominaga co-host the party. It was for an exclusive group of special guests and turned out to be one of Tokyo’s hottest fashion parties this year. It featured an installation created with VITAMIN WATER as a special preview of the drinks launch in Japan. Masatoshi Uemura top buyer of Tokyo’s BONJOUR RECORDS collaborated with Alex on a live DJ set of the designers favorite songs. The after party was at Tokyo’s LE BARON de PARIS and featured DJ sets by Housse de Racket, Spencer Product, Masatoshi Uemura and more.
The underlying theme of ALEXANDER WANG’s Fall 2009 collection has been to disregard the current economic state and conservative climate by taking an assertive approach, getting people excited by pushing the collection into a new era.This theme is a key inspiration and the energy of last weeks party has made us realize how important it is to push forward and create something to get people excited about fashion.
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ADDITION ADELAIDE / The Wall Co. Ltd.
3-6-7 b-town, Minamiaoyama
Minato-ku Tokyo
107 0062, Japan
Tongues are wagging about Steven Meisel’s latest story. Originally shot for Italian Vogue, it was then dropped by the magazine as it was too racy. This editorial, all phosphorescent whites (a result of night vision shots) was eventually published by V magazine. This features models Anna Selezneva, Daul Kim, Iris Strubegger and Naty Chabanenko in sexually explicit poses.
Steven Meisel – “Dogging”, 2008 – V magazine
The story is said to by shocking as it reflects a sexual practice galled “dogging” (well quite similar to “cruising” if it were to involve men only!). This practice was actually beautifully and well documented by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki throughout the seventies in a series of pictures called “The Park”. The eerily and strange composition of these shots (all taken under cover in different parks in Tokyo, and documenting both “cruising” and “dogging” phenomenons) puts the spectator on the same line as the creepy voyeurs in the pictures.
Kohei Yoshiyuki – untitled, 1971 from “The Park”
Here Steven Meisel revisits Kohei Yoshiyuki ’s work – recreating several shots in a fashion manner, but his models are just posing with little designer clothes on, playing adult stuff, while Kohei Yoshiyuki’ stolen depiction of his subjects leave you with an uneasy feeling of awe, curiosity and lust.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s book, “The Park” was reprinted by Hatje Cantz and the Yossi Milo Gallery. It features the complete series as well as an essay and an interview of the photographer with Nobuyoshi Araki.