Yesterday I went to see h.NAOTO’s 2009 Spring/Summer collection at the Laforet Museum in Harajuku. I’d just gotten some GRAMM stuff for the first time, so I wore that to the show.
Here’s the invitation packet. The artwork included this time is a copperplate print.
And a summary of the invitation text:
“Things beyond imagination happen nowadays in Tokyo. The living instantly becomes the dead. Why do people commit crimes? Is that the only way they can express themselves? Why do people need to express themselves?
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300 letters. 300 evidences by copperplate prints. We engrave words on metal surfaces with sharp needles like tattoos carved on skin.
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Small words give birth to small evils, and small crimes are committed.
The theme of the 2009 Spring/Summer collection is ‘Crime’.”
(A shop staff told me that the company president created 300 copperplate prints, a different one for each of the 300 invitations.)
At the Laforet entrance:
At the elevator hall:
The show started with narration based on the GRAMM world over music. The first group of clothes were GRAMM clothes. Then came Hangry&Angry, with the models wearing bright-colored clothes and holding H&A plushies. There were white+pale pink/pale blue clothes which looked very springy. The skimpy bondage-like clothes looked like swimwear. The models were wearing stockings made of metallic fabric that covered the leg up to the thigh.
The goth clothes were also light, with thin layered black fabrics. Last came models in pairs. The model in front was wearing white, and the model behind her was wearing black, barefoot, and was walking like a shadow, eyes lowered.
At the last collection, there was a model holding a bag with “negi” in it. This time there was a model holding a bag with “negi”, and another with “celery” in it.
The souvenir was an A3-size booklet of photographs used in 2008 ads.
A number of GRAMM goods went on sale yesterday. I got the catalogue, because it contains the prologue and Chapter 1 of the GRAMM story.