Today, I had a shooting for FW season!For this we had photographer, Rikki Kasso, art director, Peter Martin at Park Production and make up artist, Strom. I was so excited! I realized much I love suchproduction. It was great as my idea matched with Rikki's world. I will update this next month. Dont miss it!
今日はAKIKO OGAWAのLOOK撮影がありましたー! 次の秋冬のものです!カメラマンは今回 Rikki Kasso そして製作はPARK PRODUCTION Peter Martin メイクはStromすごい楽しかったーー やっぱり撮影とか、イメージ製作はとっても楽しい。Rikkiのつくる世界感と私の思う物がマッチした感じで、いいものが出来たと思います!8月中にはウェブにアップするので、楽しみにしててね!
It is my BD! Again, I am turning 28 years old! (hehehe). This is my BD but I am in NY now for some business meetings. For me, BD is like Happy New Year celebration as it is celebrated for the day I was born. My new year starts from today! That's why I was so excited to visit here!! There were so many things happen last year. As you know I became an independent from the financial backer, termination of a primary brand or etc,,, However I believe I can get through it as I value them indeed! I think positive attitude brings happiness! This is a new chance to change something in your life. I was so waiting for that! I know it is not easy to change or challenge something new but I will try for this!! Because I am working hard recently positively, there are many good things happen around me as a matter of fact. As NY time is behind of Japan, I can celebrate my BD 2 times! Why not taking this advantage! It was hard to book the flight this time and hotel was 40% more expensive than regular season,,,,, I don't know why but seems NY is so popular this time. As soon as I landed in NY, extremely hot air blew me! It was so so hot!! After I checked in hotel I went to the showroom to discuss next season, which was so productive. It was really great to talk in person as we normally communicate by mails. In the night I went to a restaurant at The Standard hotel in meat packing area with my close friend. That district was so busy like Shibuya! Just difference is more older people here. After, I met another old friend and I run into my other friend at SOHO House. There were many good surprises! What a consequence! My Friend, jewelry designer Marie Ueda-san, she lives in Paris now but we met here by accident! It was a wonderful night! What am I going to present to myself for my BD??
I went to see my friends art exhibition. His name is Takashi Nakajima http://www.nakajimatakashi.net/ and I met him at design school. It took place at gallery called Tokyo out of Place near Tengenji. It was second time for me to visit his show and it was final day of the exhibition. In the past, I saw his show at the first day and he participated for an exhibition held at former French embassy. I am always impressed his works as he makes a progress every time. This time was so beautiful as always! White motif gave transparency to the space and helped look white more! There were also vivid coolers, which expressed a mysterious feeling. I loved that! If I bought a big ceiling house, I would love to decollate them under ceiling or at fashion exhibition. I talked to friends as to how hard to break through the Japanese market for artist as well as fashion designer because of some reasons like there are not so many art galleries in Japan and lack of support for young, coming up artist unfortunately. I wish there were more support here. Therefore, many artists tend to go to overseas to try their ability but reality was not easy to compete globally. We really need great environment where we can make more effort here!