Yoshiki Hishinuma by Nobuyoshi Araki

SS2001

Yoshiki Hishinuma – 100 Flowers, 100 Butterflies
Two of Japan’s hottest trendsetters – fashion designer Hishinuma and also photographer Araki – show off their talents with the help of 100 girls. The girls charisma as well as vitality convey the energy and tastes of modern, young Tokyo women. So, Hishinuma’s spring / summer 2001 Paris collection is featured.

Araki (May 25, 1940) is a Japanese photographer and also contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym Arākī (アラーキー). Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books. So, Araki is one of the most prolific Japanese artists. Many of his photographs are erotic, straddling a line between art as well as pornography. Among his books are Sentimental Journey (1971), and Tokyo Lucky Hole (1990). Sentimental Journey “1972 – 1992” is a diary of life with his wife Yōko, who died of ovarian cancer in 1990. The first part of Sentimental Journey shows the couple embarking on married life — their honeymoon and also sexual relations. Pictures taken during Yoko’s last days were published in Winter Journey.