戦国の桜ｘ渋谷夜’’ (Warring Era Cherry Blossoms x Shibuya Nights) is a representation of Japanese culture woven into garments and translated into fashion. The songs (stories) are all tethered in multiple mediums of Heisei Ko such as fabrics, prints, poetry, and ultimately, a feeling. What you’re seeing and touching are the stories, legends, and feelings from another time that is different from ours, but have still endured today. The Black culture aspect comes in the form of brashness of being unapologetic in the garments and their soft yet avant-garde aesthetic.

I typically pick my fabrics based on colors, texture, prints (if not self-designed), and story in the print. Or sometimes the story comes out of the print I’ve sketched after drawing the garment design itself. An amalgamation of vestiges from centuries past culminating into the passerby crisscross footsteps of today. The art of my worn-stories or garments as you’d call them, come from so many places. The color of the fabric, texture, old Japanese legends, historical events, places I’ve been, the poetry I write in Japanese, to even simple and little fun things like an anime or movie I saw in my childhood. 

Ultimately, I cannot create a print piece let alone a garment without a story. A story is supposed to have a theme and reason. But at the end, there should always be a feeling. 

Latinx in Architecture (LiA), a knowledge community of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco (AIASF), is proud to announce PERSPECTIVAS 2024—an opportunity for design professionals to showcase built and unbuilt design work to the Bay Area community at large. This exhibition aims to display the work and talent of architecture professionals, designers, artists, students and related fields practicing in San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area. We acknowledge that architects are not alone in the design process, and we welcome work that represents these collaborations. This invitation encourages a correlation with Latin America in some aspect of identity, geography, craft, influence, etc.