‘How could the West have prepared itself to affront such seismic shock ; force fed up until now with images of a ‘Far East’ sucked into the credo of a radiant future of hyper-technology, with progress taking on video game colours, and neon tubes which are never switched off ? ‘Japanese couture prepared women to know how to quickly decide which clothes they would take the day when they would not have more than half an hour to escape’.

written in ENCENS n°27, ‘Back to Japan 2012′