The beauty of kimono silk, taken beyond its role as clothing
into a work to be contemplated and admired.
Nothing is added; the fabric itself is folded and compressed.
Light and shadow continually transform the expression of its pattern.
The kimono is unpicked into a single length of fabric, and fine pin tucks are layered across its entire surface. With no other materials added, a sculptural relief emerges. Its play of light and shadow shifts with the angle of the light and the time of day.
Hotel lobbies and suites, restaurants, private residences.
Shifting as it catches the light, each panel brings to refined spaces
a quiet presence and a story of Japanese beauty.
She grew up surrounded by fabric and tailoring, between the salon founded by her grandmother and her mother's family kimono house. In Paris, she studied couture pattern-making and tailoring at ESMOD and haute couture embroidery at École Lesage. After returning to Japan, she honed her craft under her grandmother. While creating pieces from kimono as the designer of Maison Brijean, she also makes artworks that explore the relief and shadow of fabric, and the time that fabric holds within it.
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KIMONO COMPRESSION is not currently for sale.
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