Fashion can be more messy.
How did you come to love fashion?
Tsuzuki:I had a childhood friend who was very close to me. We were on the same youth baseball team and lived close to each other, but we went to different junior high schools. We met again in high school, and the guy who used to wear jerseys and ride a mama bike back then was now wearing colored slacks and riding a bicycle with narrow tires (laughs). He looked really cool, and as I followed his back, I got into fashion myself.
Yoshikawa:When was that?
Tsuzuki:That was about 10 years ago.
What kind of clothes were popular at the time?
Tsuzuki:What is it? I don't know exactly what it was, but fast fashion was at its peak. I was in high school and didn't have a lot of money, so I would buy clothes at places like that, and then save up and go to secondhand clothing stores.
Yoshikawa:I used to go to vintage clothing stores when I was in high school, from 1994 to 1996, when the Internet had not yet spread. There was a vintage boom in the early 90s, and that was my entry point.
Tsuzuki:Then we are the same. I used to buy clothes like my friends.
When you were in high school, the Internet was widespread.
Tsuzuki:I never had the sense that I could look things up on the Internet. I just looked at various things with my friends, went to stores, and exchanged information and absorbed what we learned from each other.
Yoshikawa:Is it still like that?
Tsuzuki:That may be so. I don't actively follow fashion information. I am more likely to be interested in something that catches my eye and dig deeper into it. It may be quite sensible.
Not only on the Internet, but also on the street?
Tsuzuki:Yes, it is. Maybe it's more in the city.
What kind of things are you interested in? Mr. Tsuzuki is very good at styling and has a unique personality that others don't have.
Tsuzuki: I have about five good friends who like fashion, and they all have their own different styles and styles of dressing. I feel that we influence each other, and that I myself take the best of my friends' outfits. I also go to a vintage clothing store in Kobe once every few months and try on clothes and talk with the owner from morning till night, absorbing all sorts of things.
Yoshikawa: There was a fashion snapshot magazine called "FRUiTS" around the end of the 90s, and seeing Ms. Tsuzuki's styling reminded me of it. I saw your styling in "FRUiTS" at the time, and there were men wearing skirts in the magazine as well. There were also a lot of people in the magazine who wore unique and individualistic outfits, such as wearing clothes that looked like reconstructed kimonos with geta (Japanese clogs).
Tsuzuki: Is it the age of the backwaters?
Yoshikawa: It was at the same time, but there was a unique world that didn't match up with that world.
Tsuzuki: I also have the opportunity to hear about the fashion of the time, and I wonder if there was more freedom back then.
Yoshikawa: That may be so. Because there was so little information available, it was easy to stand out and win. However, like Mr. Tsuzuki, I think people in their 20s today are more sophisticated and sophisticated in their use of color and accessories. In the past, they were more messy.
Tsuzuki: Wow! That's nice to hear!
Are you consciously preparing for this?
Tsuzuki: I have my own standard of balance. However, I also like the old-fashioned style that Mr. Kikkawa is talking about. I think it is unique because there was more freedom in those days, and there were many different expressions. It is more interesting when individuality is expressed.
Yoshikawa: There were all kinds of people, it was really chaotic.
Tsuzuki: Nowadays, everything is so well organized that I feel that people on the street are not immune to such unique fashions. Personally, I think it is okay to be more messy.
