a girl to love. Tokyo --> Disk Union --> vinyl rip --> Happy New Year. So much love to all those who have bought pieces from the UNIQLO x Hana Tajima Fall / Winter collection.  Now the colours of the landscape have changed at it feels like Autumn, and I'm falling into those pieces too.  Finding them like armour against the encroaching cold.  This is a post of all things that made me feel the way I felt when I designed these clothes, and how they still make me feel. There are days when I question the value of social media, when I see how it has the capacity to make us feel less than, to feel that we are only what other people see of us. But there is conflict because I also know it can be such an incredible way to connect to people, and I see for myself how much easier it is to be away from the people I love when I can see the beautiful things they make, and do.So this is my pledge to swing the balance back into what is good. To #SaySomethingNice even if just to remind myself that it can make a real and actual difference in a person's life.

It's wonderful to be in the company of such an inspiring group of ladies for this.  Go here to see the full Amazon Fashion campaign. It was wonderful to be involved with the Museum of Modern Art #ItemsMoMA.  So many incredible speakers and topics "Twenty-six iconic garments, accessories, and issues from the fashion universe, spanning the early 20th century to the present"I am sorry to have missed in in person, busy in another time zone.  But if like me you want to see the whole thing, here's the link to the livestream. Music by:The Caretaker "Libet's Delay"R.Ariel "No Middle Names"Sound mixed by Andrew Dunn Home again with fingertips and bed warmed breath on glass still cold from the night. With morning light in pools on floorboards.pants and scarf Uniqlo x Hana Tajima Spring / Summer 2016 first light / last light. hijab and blouse UNIQLO x Hana Tajima Fall 2015Happy new year to you all.  It was a beautiful twelve months and I saw it out with my family around me.  

This year looks full of things to make and places to see, I'm excited for all the things I can see ahead of me and all the things I can't. Combining refined elegance and effortless comfort, UK-born fashion designer Hana Tajima is changing the way young women dress all over the world. Inspired by her Japanese roots and English upbringing, her contemporary, functional designs, which are both culturally sensitive and extremely versatile, continue garnering international attention.duramax hoodies for saleTwenty-six iconic garments, accessories, and issues from the fashion universe, spanning the early 20th century to the present, will be discussed in a daylong abecedarium on Monday, May 16. lecrae hoodiesA dynamic roster of designers, curators, critics, scholars, labor activists, and entrepreneurs will explore these topics—one for each letter of the alphabet—in seven minute vignettes.uni osnabrück hoodie

Q = Question: Is Fashion Modern? Tinker Hatfield, VP Creative Concepts, Nike B = Blackglama Fur Coat Dan Mathews, Senior Vice President, PETA Harold Koda, former Curator-in-Charge, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art D = Dr. Martens David Godlis, artist and photographersev hoodies Maxine Bédat, Co-founder and CEO, Zadyaritzia hoodies canada F = Facial Hairkalashnikov hoodie Sean Trainor, historian, writer, and educator Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov, curators, Museea Kerby Jean-Raymond, Founder, Pyer Moss DeRay McKesson, educator and activist, Black Lives Matter Lunch (on your own) I = Invisibility Cloak Maholo Uchida, Curator of New Media Art and Design, Miraikan, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo

Emma McClendon, Assistant Curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Hala Malak, Design Critic, Co-Founder of Design and Flow and Kaflab Foundation, and Instructor at Parsons School of Design L = Little Black Dress Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Mickey Boardman, Editorial Director, PAPER magazine N = Nose Job Michael Kane, plastic surgeon Leslie Vosshall, Professor of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University Aimee Mullins, athlete, actress, and model R = Rana Plaza Carmen Artigas, sustainable designer, consultant, and educator Mary Ping, Founder, Slow and Steady Wins the Race S = Syrian Lingerie Malu Halasa, co-author, The Secret life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design and Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline Hana Tajima, fashion designer, critic, and consultant Hari Nef, actress, model, and writer Grace Ali, Founder and Editorial Director, OF NOTE magazine

W = Dutch Wax Omoyemi Akerele, Founder, Lagos Fashion and Design Week Sara Ziff, Founder, Model Alliance, and MPA candidate, Harvard University Y = YSL’s Touche Éclat Troy Patterson, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Moderated discussion and conclusion Whether we call them fashion, apparel, clothes, accessories, garments, or numbers, the items we wear are central to our lives, our identities, and the ways in which we relate to society and the world. Because they are so essential and meaningful, they have been the subject of countless studies and exhibitions, from equally numerous points of view—art historical, sociological, aesthetic, technological, and more. The design angle, by nature a synthesis of all these approaches, is the one MoMA has chosen for this event, and for the upcoming exhibition Items: Is Fashion Modern? This event accompanies Items: Is Fashion Modern?. This event is part of Items: Is Fashion Modern? Issey Miyake, Fujiwara Dai.