Fashion has its seasons. Each year, each season, the fashion designers complete to be fashionable. We are not from fashion industry at all, so the non of these words; the season, deadstock, nor trend are familiar with us. We simply make the jackets with whatever we can get with no planning to be “fashionable”. I don’t even know what “fashionable” means anymore.
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Please do not misunderstand my “writing” here. I respect the fashion industry. The evolution in fashion enrich the human’s activity – to be beautiful & respect personality are very important. I am just saying, we as Sashi.Co isn’t in the fashion industry (at least in my understanding).
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When someone (or a company) wants to collaborate with us, the words we hear is the “lot(s)” and “delivery (production) date”. Since we aren’t in the traditional (fashion) manufacturer, we have very different value in those words. As much as we would like to make “as many” items & “as fast” as possible, it is all-hand-stitched after all. When an artisan doesn’t feel like stitching, it shouldn’t be done because “the stitches” will tell a story by itself. We cannot guarantee the result if we rush the artisans. It is just different. ☆
When we think of “fashion season” in Sashiko, it is “generation” instead of years. I have the jacket as the “social experiment” if I can keep wearing this Jacket (& of course keep mending it) then pass it down to the next generation. We know these pieces already. They are called Boro from many years ago. It isn’t only a story about Sashiko & Boro. Everyone who is reading this should have similar stories in your family. The human being used to “pass down” the culture as I had described here, hand to hand, made by hands. The “fashion” we know is fairly recent human activity.
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Again, nothing is the matter of “right” or “wrong”. I am just here to say, “what you used to be ashamed of may be something we, as human being, may need now”. I really appreciate all the comments you leave here. I read them (& will reply when I have more time :D)
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2019-04-23 15:38:36
配信でも話しましたが、「刺し子を広める為」には、どこかしらで企業やブランドとのコラボは必要にはなってくるんだろうな……と。ロット、納期、シーズン。商売をされていらっしゃる方には、当たり前の単語が、刺し子では「うーん」となってしまうのです。意味を理解しないのではなく、刺し子とはどうも相性の悪い言葉達で。コラボの話、頂いています。そんな刺し子の面倒くささ（俺の面倒臭さじゃなくて）も飲み込んでくれるような方々と、一緒に何かを作れたらいいなぁなんて思っているのです。
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I sometimes feel that next generations have no interest in the things we wish to pass down. Hoping your work will help inspire change in that 💕
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If we feel ashamed of something, its an opportunity to examine why. I agree with not being a production – there is always some loss of quality, even if that quality isn’t visible to the eye.
This post is awesome.