yoke tokyo 寺田典夫 遅咲きの天才ファッションデザイナー

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From a different point of view, everyone is a craftsman.
This is a documentary that changes the perspective of everyday life.
I met Mr. Terada of YOKE three and a half years ago when I rented YOKE's atelier for an event. After that, I was allowed to visit the atelier, and I went to see the exhibition and heard about his thoughts on making clothes. I heard a lot of stories about weaving machines and so on.
In March, I received an email from Mr. Terada saying, "I'm doing a fashion show, so please come.""I want to do one last show in Japan and take a step towards Paris," he declared. I sensed Mr.Terada great determination,I wanted to shoot the last YOKE show in Japan, so I asked him to let me to shoot immediately. Mr.Terada readily accepted.
I decided to shoot from the preparation of the day before the show.
The day before the show, I visited the atelier and started shooting. I asked a question that I had never heard before. What made you want to make clothes? When asked, Mr. Terada said, "I studied design and fashion at university. I was interested in fashion and wanted to pursue fashion, so I quit university, entered Bunka Fashion College, and immersed myself in making clothes and designing. After getting a job at a company and doing practical work such as planning and production, the desire to make my own clothes became stronger and I decided to become independent, and started YOKE in the fall and winter of 2018.”
At the 1st Paris exhibition, it was a difficult start because it was difficult to get orders from buyers who came to the exhibition, but at the 2nd Paris exhibition last year, I received many orders from overseas buyers and gained confidence.
He believed in himself even during difficult times, continued to search for fabrics that would make His personality stand out, searched for Japanese fabrics, and opened up a new world using materials made by Japanese craftsmen.
In this show as well, I was impressed by the use of fabric called sakiori, which has been made in the Tohoku region since the Edo period, to create modern military clothing.
"I always like to think about things like the layout of the furniture in my atelier, the color of the walls, etc."
He said that he had been preparing for this show for more than a month and that he was 80% to 90% ready, so he would like to enjoy tomorrow. On the day of the show, when I asked him how he was feeling today, he said, "I've never experienced this kind of tension before, and it's crazy." As soon as I saw the venue, I could understand why. The size of the venue was 2,000 square meters, the height was 9m, the objects were 6m x 9m, and the audience seats could accommodate more than 600 people.
Light rehearsal, music rehearsal finished and model rehearsal started. This time, 41 models will be prepared and 60 clothes will be shown so as not to lose to this large venue. That's double the normal number.
You can tell that they are aiming for a show that goes beyond common sense, as it is the last show in Japan.
After the rehearsal is over, the audience enters the venue.
Despite being a weekday, the show started with over 600 people watching.
　
Tears welled up on Mr. Terada's face as he watched the flow of the show while looking at the models and monitors backstage. As the finale approached, the tears grew bigger and I cried too.
I was moved by how Mr. Terada's personality appeared in the way he bowed his head to the audience many times.
When he came back from the finale and hugged the staff, there was something similar to the Japanese players of WBC. It was really wonderful to see his entrusting all of his clothes to the stylists, hair and makeup staff, and show production staff, and trusting them to proceed.
After the show, I asked Mr. Terada how the last show in Japan was.
"It was so much more than I could have imagined, and I'm glad we did the show. It was the next step," he replied, choking on his words. I am grateful to have been able to be there at a moment when he was getting closer to his dream show in Paris in the near future. It was also the moment when I decided to shoot again when he had a show in Paris.
　Thank you for watching.
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