Future Stars Of Fashion
Somarta
Fashion’s Future
TEXT BY JENNIFER MOULAISON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SINYA KEITA
Fashion has always had a way of marking time. The archaic and
medieval Victorian corset or the repression of the mid-century
housewife’s dresses and pearls serve as mile markers for the
progress of humanity. We scoff at standards of fashion from our
past and proceed to congratulate ourselves on how far we’ve
come. But for Tamae Hirokawa, it isn’t far enough.
This Japan-based designer has re-imagined the concept of
dressing one’s self and reshaped it into the pinnacle of mod