Features
334475540, Zine 1, 1994
334475540, Zine 1, 1994
Kimie Hata
ZINE PRESS, Tokyo
Japan
28 x 39 cm
118
Zine
Softcover, staple-bound
Black & White
English and Japanese
Hideo Watanabe
Shoji Ueda, Michiru Abe, Christian Boltanski, Mitsumasa Fujitsuka, COMME des GARCONS, Mariko Mori, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Yayoi Kusama, Hiromi Nagakura, Osamu Wataya, Goda Nobuyo, Hitomi Watanabe, Katsumi Omori, Yasuo Matsumoto, Takashi Homma, Kazuo Ohno, Sakiko Nomura, Kiyoshi Tatsukawa, Masahisa Fukase, Mitsuru Ueda, Ichiro Tanida
The first issue of 334475540 ZINE published by stylist Kimie Hata. A visual collection featuring artists famous and unknown. Apparently, the numbers on the cover are the telephone numbers of the offices that existed at that time.
They Look Of Reading,
We Look From Lacking
Pensive yet unaware, they are not here, but elsewhere; or so it seems. Disrupted but unoffended, they pause from absorption. — by Colby Vexler & Justin Clement
Experimental archives,
new fashion histories
The concept of the ‘archive’ seems to have captured once more the contemporary moment in fashion. — by Laura Gardner
From top to bottom
A header on a page is worn like a hat on the head. It is there as a part of a uniform that can indicate the wearers job, the books title and the stage of development in the narrative. — by Emma Singleton
Her hand nuzzled
into his pocket
How the novel frees the garment of/from? fashion — by Femke de Vries
Keeping your heart in
a fabric padded pouch
Why do we wear our hearts on our sleeves? Why do we pad out our love as though its bound to hurt? Why does a heartbeat reverberate through the fabric of the skin? — by Emma Singleton