"VOGUE JAPAN" December issue, letter from the editor -in -chief.
I often feel "happiness that there are people who can be called a teacher".Even if you don't actually call it a "teacher", you feel like a "teacher" in your heart, or even if it's not that exaggerated, you feel a "teaching" that suddenly shines like stardust from its way of life and casual words.Being there.I guess everyone has such a person little by little.For me, the "teacher" after becoming an adult is Masayoshi Nakajo, an art director who met when I started the editor's work.I have been involved in the art direction of Shiseido's corporate cultural magazine "Hanabuki" for over 40 years, and designed Shiseido Parlor's package and Matsuya Ginza logo (VOGUE JAPAN, to celebrate the publication of the work "Nakajo NAKAJO".We interviewed Nakajo on the website, so please see that too).It is a very difficult technique to summarize what Nakajo taught in a simple word, but if you dare to express it, it is interesting and vivid to see the relationship that does not insert the design and magazines, the world where people live.The intention to keep thinking about "cut" and "what is fashion".It is not a knowledge of "class", but is desperate and more exciting in your daily work, and chases the words of "teachers", the gaze, and the movement.It is like a "thought" that has accumulated in the time of "young".