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「FKI展 & ルミロック」Year end kimono fun
Time seems to fly faster and faster these weeks. It’s December and suddenly I feel overwhelmed with work – but that’s a great thing after having a little too silent past months. Colder weather and the years final month calls for kimono events and the popular “忘年会” Year-end parties! So I found myself running around between 4 appointments yesterday. One was the FKI展 –... -
「ルミ⭐︎レタル」Rumi x Retar Collaboration
Finally we have internet in our new place! So I can start trying to catch up on all the recent events and places I went.. I am wayyy late. 引っ越してからの一ヶ月後にやっとインターネットを設置して頂いた。 それで、（遅いけど）最近のイベントなどについてどんどんブログ上げますね。 First a quick intro for the Rumi x Retar Collab and Rumi Rock’s new items. I went to their 3 day pop up shop in Nakameguro to check it out first hand. (And... -
「きものサローネ2016」Kimono Salone
Yesterday I jumped back into my kimono, did my hair and went to Kimono Salone – a 3 day event / exhibition of kimono brands in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. 昨日は久々に着物でお出かけしました。初めての「きものサローネ」へ！ But let’s start from the beginning – as always with my outfit: I finally tried to do Nihongami again. It was quite a fight, because I used a cheap stupid extension which doesn’t work well... -
「７月着物コーデ」Kimono Styles July 2016
I regularly post my kimono coordinates on my Instagram & Twitter but fail to do so on my blog. So I thought I would show all the styles I wore in July here in a complete post. 着物コディネートの写真はよくインスタグラムやツイッターなどに載せますが、ブログにUPするのはいつも忘れちゃいます。そのため、今回「７月着物コーデのまとめ」として紹介したいと思います。 LET’S START ☆ For a meeting I chose a rather toned down summer kimono and spiced it up with a cute gold fish obi. The bag... -
「斉藤三才」Saito Sansai - Roots of Jotaro Saito
Many of you probably already know about JOTARO SAITO, a kimono brand from Kyoto which I reported about previously. (At Tokyo Fashion Week & The store) 着物好きやブログを読んでる皆さんはJOTARO SAITOと言う着物ブランドを知ってますよね？ 今回はこのブランドの歴史を紐解いてみたいと思います。 （前回の記事：東京コレクション & 絹磨xJOTARO SAITOの紹介） JOTARO SAITO actually comes from a traditional line of kimono artisans in Kyoto. His father Saito Sansai also designs kimono (and revolutionised the industry already before Jotaro) and also Sansai has... -
「着物についてのインタビュー」Interview with The Daily Dot
After someone took a photo of me wearing the Space Invaders kimono in a train station and putting it online, Twitter completely blew up so that the photo/tweet was seen by 1.4 Million people and was retweeted over 15,000 times. この間、手作りのスペースインベーダー着物でお出かけしたところ、駅に「着物の写真を撮っていいですか？すごいですね！」との事がありました。 顔なしの写真でしたのに、次の日ツイッターを見たら友達からのメッセージで「コレもしかしてアンジーですか？話題になってるよ！！」で先日の写真が！！ とんでもない事になってた！オー 今まで見た人の数はなんと１４０万人で、リツイートは１万５千回以上です。 I didn’t know about it until a friend tweeted me like “Is that you, Anji? This tweet is going viral!!”...
