Art piece reconstructed from antique pillowcases and underwear from the late 19th and early 20th century.
The new collection is available at official distributor and COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.
Photography by AAWAA
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
Photography by Hanayo
Mulberry earthenware combined with a stone axe made by Miyakono Yasuda
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.
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.
Second photography by Hanayo
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.
Photography by Hanayo
Unique reversible tailored haori jacket made of cotton line typewriter with a washed and bleached look created by refining and dyeing densely woven cotton linen.
Photography by AAWAA
We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “The North Village Fair” S|S 2025 collection.
The new collection is available at official distributor and the COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.
Photography by Hanayo
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
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
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 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.
Photography by Elein Fleiss
Music by Jamie xx
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:
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:
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.
Photography by Elein Fleiss
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.
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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/
Photography by Kim Ilda
Courtesy of TOMORROW FIELD
We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection at COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is renowned for its excellent cashmere. This fine white cashmere is spun and dyed in Japan and blended with silk. The wholegarment knitting process provides excellent comfort. Cashmere silk can be worn in all seasons. The collection includes a sweater, a sweater dress, and tenugui.
Shetland sheep, native to the Shetland Islands of Scotland, are nurtured in a harsh environment, resulting in a wool with a rustic look, soft touch, and great warmth. Shetland wool is slowly spun on an 18th century English-style spinning machine developed in the early Industrial Revolution, and then woven into a herringbone pattern on shuttle looms powered by hand weaving principles.
The collection includes a dolman sleeve coat.
Photography by Takashi Homma
One day Awataro and I went to visit our friends’ house a little further down the mountain.* They are a French couple living in Keihoku* and are friends with Karin, the curator of the Tama-Usagi dance at the French Cultural Center in Kyoto. They bought an old house that dates back to the Edo period and built a new thatched roof by themselves. They live together with horses, ducks, cats, dogs and chickens. They are truly the stars of my dreams! They are going to invite a sheep soon and are building a new shed for it. At the beginning of the summer, they said they could see many f…[Read more]
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