Out Of Time
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Photographer: Sybille Walter
Stylist: Samuel Drira
Back To Japan
no. 27 / 2012
I really ought to try and use a scanner.
Lately I have been looking through scans of fashion editorials from the late '80s and early '90s and marveled at how relevant the more directional shoots still are. And so the various editorials in the recent Back To Japan issue of Encens rather paradoxically, at least upon first consideration, looked back in order to look forward. It is in its way a rather reassuring state of affairs. I do not think it is necessarily about nostalgia, because nostalgia has that inherent sense of melancholy about things as they once were. Instead I like to think of this looking back to look forward as a process of continuation - of things still alive, still developing, still evolving. Look back, there is so much there to learn from.
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