Taishi Hirokawa

Sometime in the 80s fashion photographer Taishi Hirokawa drove around Japan's countryside with a trunk full of clothes, all from Japan's most prominent fashion designers. He shot farmers, pig breeders, cab drivers and other commoners all dressed up in Comme des Garcons and the like. The NY Times has written and others complained that it is unfair and evil tease for the poor people to be dressed up in luxury clothes.

I understand how that can be one way of seeing things but there's also the counter-argument where it feels like a fixation of the bold & the beautiful themselves, as if the only thing separating the poor man from the happy man is an Issey Miyake trouser suit. At times I'm more jealous of their lifestyles than the clothes they are wearing. And I really like those clothes.

In the end it's simply interesting people wearing interesting clothes, that's all.