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COSMIC WONDER
The North Village Fair at Elbereth

May 22, 2025 | News 
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We are pleased to announce our new collection exhibition of COSMIC WONDER at Elbereth, Kyoto.

 

The Ajrak collection is made of organic kala cotton, a native Indian cotton, and printed by Pakistani artisans in the Kutch region of western India using ajrak (woodblock printing), a natural indigo dye and akane herb dyeing. Workwear made into old denim jackets and pants from fabrics made from kala cotton dyed with indigo and hand-woven into denim by twill weaving.

 

Made from a combination of sumi-dyed linen sheeting and a cotton-linen typewriter densely woven with a washed and bleached look created by refining and dyeing.

 

This collection is inspired by the striped fabrics of 19th century Europe. The piece-dyeing process produces subtle variations of color. Colors are Black, Shell, Violet ash, Citron ash, Rose crystal, Dark sumi, and Ryukyu indigo. Collection includes: Twisted dress combination with organic cotton Panama jacquard and double gauze check, Wrapped pants in two different European stripes, Wrapped skirt, Wrapped dress and Farmer dress in a combination of Panama jacquard.These and other carefully selected items are available.

 

We are looking forward to your visit.

 

 

Exhibition period:

May 24 − June 1, 2025

Gallery closed May 28 – 29

 

 

Venue:

Elbereth

1-2 Ushiwaka-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku, Kyoto

Open noon – 6:30pm

 

Photography by Hanayo

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COSMIC WONDER
Leather collection at ISETAN MEN’S

Apr 01, 2025 | News 

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COSMIC WONDER leather collection will appear at “EDIT by ISETAN MEN’S” promotion on the 1st floor of ISETAN Shinjuku Men’s Building.

 

Exhibition period:

April 2 ー 15, 2025

Open 10:00am – 20:00pm

 

Venue:

ISETAN MEN’S 1F promotion 3-14-1 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo Japan

 

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Photo of top : Hanayo
Photo of bottom : AAWAA

Mulberry earthenware combined with a stone axe made by Miyakono Yasuda

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
The North Village Fair

Mar 22, 2025 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of natural indigo dyed hand-woven denim collection.

 

Made from Organic Kala Cotton, a native Indian cotton, dyed with indigo and hand-woven in twill weave in a studio in South India. Collection includes workwear reminiscent of old denim jackets and pants.

 

The new collection is available at official distributor and COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.

 

New arrivals

 

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Kala Cotton
Kala cotton is a native Indian cotton grown in an environment where water and fertile land are scarce. It is called Kala, which in Sanskrit can mean “black”, because the calyx of the cotton plant looks black like a hard shell. Because it naturally deters pests like the pink bollworm, which are attracted to cotton, it does not require pesticides. The fiber length is as short as 20~22mm, and the fiber thickness is as thick as 5μ. It does not require irrigation facilities and chemical fertilizers, and is a sustainable material that is in harmony with the farmers and the environment. Kala Cotton is in harmony with the earth, nature, and human, enriching our senses and our lives.

 

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Second photography by Hanayo

 

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
The North Village Fair

Mar 12, 2025 | News 

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From a collection inspired by the striped fabrics of 19th century Europe. The piece-dyeing process produces subtle variations of color. Colors are Black, Shell, Violet ash, Citron ash, Rose crystal, Dark sumi, and Ryukyu indigo. Collection includes: Twisted dress combination with organic cotton Panama jacquard and double gauze check, Wrapped pants in two different European stripes, Wrapped skirt, Wrapped dress and Farmer dress in a combination of Panama jacquard.

 

From the leather collection. Gently enveloping, meditative design. Bifold wallet, Wallet, Card case, Circular accessory case and Conductor’s bag made of naturally-tanned leather is tanned with mimosa extract, which deepens the texture of leather, and beautiful shining foil leather. Bifold wallet, Wallet, Card case. Natural-tanned leather engraved with the sacred geometric pattern. Bifold wallet, Wallet, Card case made of naturally-tanned leather engraved with sacred geometric patterns.

 

The new collection is available at official distributor and COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.

 

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Photography by Hanayo

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S|S 2025
COSMIC WONDER
The North Village Fair

Jan 17, 2025 | Collections 

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 Mulberry field

 Mulberry field

 Abstract field

 Abstract craft

 

Traveler heading to the North village fair

I want you to ask her if she still remembers me

If she still lives there, give her this and tell her

Tell her that what happened then was an illusion, and that this abstract fragment represents everything

 

Collection

 

Photographs : Hanayo

 

Photographs with white background : AAWAA

Models : Mélanie Heresbach (2m26), Sébastien Renauld (2m26), Nanao Kishima, Tom Felin, Keisuke Sugimoto, Koshi, Maki

Shooting crew : Miyako Yasuda, Tomoko Furuno, Kiku Okuda

Cooperate : 2m26, Yuki Kato (Kousagisha), Ai Nakagawa, Stephen Sprott

 

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Elein Fleiss
L’Hiver

Dec 18, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of Elein Fleiss’s Photographic works and Booklet at COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.

 

The three women I photographed are friends who live in the same village and surroundings as me. But like me, they also came from elsewhere. I had a vision of women dressed in off-white wool garments and walking in winter landscapes. I started from there. Everything else―post-industrial landscapes, nuclear power plants, and even makeup―came by chance and coincidentally changed the direction of my project.  When I say “came by chance,” I mean I decided to let the unexpected come in, which somehow made sense to me. – Elein Fleiss

 

We held the Elein Fleiss “L’Hiver” exhibition at Vacant/Centre (Tokyo) and Elbereth (Kyoto) in the fall of 2024. To coincide with these exhibitions, her photograph works and a booklet entitled L’Hiver was published. Her photographs overlap the impression of the post-industrial revolution with scenes of her friends living in the village around her and surrounded by nature. The photographs are inkjet printed on bamboo paper. A booklet interweaves selections from the past two decades of her diary writing along with her photographic works. The cover is a two-color Risograph print. 

 

Elein Fleiss “L’Hiver”

 

Elein co-founded the magazine Purple, which she edited from the 1990s through the early 2000s, followed by Purple Journal from 2003 to 2007. Currently living in a village with medieval atmosphere in the southwest of France, she continues her engagement with writing and photography. 

 

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Photography by Elein Fleiss

 

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Elein Fleiss
L’Hiver / Diana, Flore

Oct 19, 2024 | Exhibitions 

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We are pleased to present Elein Fleiss’s exhibition “L’Hiver / Diana, Flore” at Elbereth, Kyoto.

 

Elein co-founded the magazine Purple, which she edited from the 1990s through the early 2000s, followed by Purple Journal from 2003 to 2007. Currently living in a country town in the southwest of France, she continues her engagement with writing and photography. For these exhibitions in Tokyo and Kyoto, she will showcase a new body of work, a combination of photographs and vintage clothing. To coincide with these exhibitions, a booklet entitled L’Hiver will be published. L’Hiver interweaves selections from the past two decades of her diary writing along with her photographic works. COSMIC WONDER’s “THAT OLD MAGIC” Autumn / Winter collection can also be viewed in the same exhibition.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

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Exhibition period:

November 2 – November 10, 2024

*Elein Fleiss will be present on November 2

 

Place:

Elbereth

1-2 Ushiwaka-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku, Kyoto

Open noon – 6:30pm

 

Related Exhibition:

“L’Hiver / Aurélie, Jean”at Vacant, Tokyo

October 25 – November 10, 2024

 

Co-host:

Vacant

 

Elein Fleiss

Elein Fleiss was born in April 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She now lives in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val after leaving Paris fifteen years ago. Since 1989 she has been organizing exhibitions, publishing magazines, directing super-8 films, taking lots of photographs, writing texts and picking wild herbs and flowers. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, in two books (One Star Press, Poetry of Sex and Adachi Press), and have been exhibited in Japan as well as Europe.

 

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Photography by Elein Fleiss

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TOMORROW FIELD 2024

Oct 18, 2024 | Exhibitions 

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AAWAA, the founder of COSMIC WONDER a contemporary artist and ,  is pleased to present a new work at Kyotango, Kyoto.

 

TAIZA Residence, which will open this fall, will feature a new spatial work by AAWAA using Taiza’s soil, and SEI TAIZA will feature a spatial work by AAWAA.

 

 

Exhibition period:

October 25 – November 17, 2024

Open 11am – 4pm *Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays

 

Venues:

TAIZA Residence

3332-2, Taiza, Tango-cho, Kyotango, Kyoto

 

SEI TAIZA

3329, Taiza, Tango-cho, Kyotango, Kyoto

 

Organizers:

TOMORROW, Japan Arts Council, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

 

Supports:

Kyotango City, Kyotango City Board of Education, Kyoto by the Sea DMO

 

Official website:

https://tomorrow-jp.org/en/program/2024fall/

 

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Photography by Kim Ilda

Courtesy of TOMORROW FIELD

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Kazuya Tatsutomi
Ajrakh

May 22, 2025 | Free Press 

  Ajrakh is a traditional block print fabric made in the Kutch region Western India. This fabric was originally made to be worn over the shoulder or wrapped around the head and waist. The basic colors are the blue of Indian indigo, the pale red of Indian akane, and the black of iron oxide, which was used in the past in Japan to blacken teeth.   Last year brought unusually heavy rains, which hampered the production of Ajrakh. Our Ajrakh dyeing was also delayed, and Sufiyan, the head of a group of artisans, was beginning to worry. The original Ajrakh often featured geometric patterns s…[Read more]

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