JAPAN: A land of contrasts
Japan edition
a city of contrasts
Japan edition
a city of contrasts
[01]
Some places have an identity born of coherence. Others, precisely, of contradiction.
Of what remains versus what changes. Of opposing rhythms, different languages and ways of understanding the same space that, unexpectedly, work together.
Some cities evolve. Kyoto simply learns to live with all of its versions.
Of what remains versus what changes. Of opposing rhythms, different languages and ways of understanding the same space that, unexpectedly, work together.
Some cities evolve. Kyoto simply learns to live with all of its versions.
OLD TOWN
[02]
Some places keep intact a way of understanding time.
Temples, gardens and wooden architecture where every element has its place with precision.
Here, silence also builds the space. Beauty appears in proportion, in materials and in everything that has learned to endure.
Temples, gardens and wooden architecture where every element has its place with precision.
Here, silence also builds the space. Beauty appears in proportion, in materials and in everything that has learned to endure.
CONTEMPORARY KYOTO
[03]
There is also a city with a different rhythm.
More immediate, more intense, full of stimuli and small tensions that coexist without needing to be resolved. What is interesting is not choosing between one version or the other, but discovering how both can belong to the same place.
More immediate, more intense, full of stimuli and small tensions that coexist without needing to be resolved. What is interesting is not choosing between one version or the other, but discovering how both can belong to the same place.
BETWEEN BOTH WORLDS
[04]
It is in that space between extremes that Japan FW26 begins.
Calm and energy.
What remains and what evolves. Precision versus the unexpected.
Calm and energy.
What remains and what evolves. Precision versus the unexpected.
Two seemingly opposite languages that find a point of balance.
A QUESTION OF BALANCE
[05]
Perhaps identity doesn’t consist of choosing a single version of ourselves. But of finding the space where all of them can coexist.
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