no_name.NOWHERE
MY FASHION
NAME
no_name.nowhere
no_name.nowhere is a fashion archive that turns existing materials into one-of-a-kind pieces. Vintage Levi's, silk kimonos rescued from secondhand markets, fragments of textiles that would otherwise get discarded, all reworked, hand-finished, and made into garments that carry actual stories.
Sustainability in fashion gets talked about more than it gets practiced. The work here is an attempt at the practice itself. High-quality fabric, treated as material worth saving, sewn into something specific instead of something disposable.
The reference points are personal. The NOWHERE store that Nigo and Jun Takahashi built in 1990s Harajuku, a small shop that quietly shaped how a generation thought about culture. Bushi (武士), the way a craftsman is supposed to commit to their work with full presence. Kamikaze (神風), total intention with no half measures. Every piece in this archive carries some part of those references, and some part of personal memory.
ABOUT
CHERRY.B COLLECTION
KIMONO UPCYCLING PROJECT
PATCHWORKS DENIM
CHERRY.B
COLLECTION
September zoza
Levi's small-e vintage denim · Acrylic paint · Hand-sealed finish
The cherry blossoms in front of my house bloom in the same week every spring. They stay quiet through fall and winter, then arrive all at once, full color, no warning. Watching that cycle every year is what made this piece make sense. Resilience and renewal aren't slogans. They're a pattern the tree shows you whether you're paying attention or not.
The base is a pair of Levi's small-e vintage denim, dark and quiet to start with. Acrylic paint applied by hand, then hand-sealed to lock the work in. The signature 倖, my first name in Japanese, sits on the back pocket, every line stitched by hand. The piece took weeks of slow work, because rushing would have lost the point.
What came out is a denim that holds two things at once. A Japanese kanji that means good fortune, painted onto an American workpant built to last decades. Both objects already had stories before I touched them. The piece lets them speak to each other.
Materials
Story
KIMONO
UPCYCLING
PROJECT
NOVEMBER zoza
100% silk kimono · Original floral lining · Hand-folded edges · 3-point adjustable button system
Materials
The silk kimono came home from a secondhand market for $25. The original tag said over $500. Something about that gap made the project obvious before I started cutting.
The set works in three colors that all belong to the Bay. Gold for the Gold Rush, the story San Francisco refuses to forget. Orange for the SF Giants. Green for the Oakland A's. The hometown teams that raised me when I came over from Japan and didn't know anyone yet.
The top is shaped like a Hawaiian shirt because the proportions felt right against the silk's softness. The skirt is pleated and asymmetric, designed to move with the wearer instead of just sitting on them. Hand-folded edges, original floral lining left intact, three-point adjustable button system at the waist.
What the piece does is move a Japanese fabric across an ocean and dress it in three Bay Area memories. A 100-year-old silk that almost ended up in a thrift bin gets to live in San Francisco now.
Story
DENIM
PATCH WORKS
JANUARY zozs
Levi's Big E denim · Kimono scraps · Sashiko thread (hand-stitched)
Materials
After the kimono upcycling project, scraps were left over. Smaller cuts of silk too good to throw out, but too irregular to use whole. KAPITAL had been on my moodboard for months, and so had sashiko, the Japanese repair tradition where stitches are meant to be seen, not hidden.
The denim base is Levi's Big E, sourced from the same Bay Area thrift run as the original kimono. The scraps got placed onto the denim by hand, then stitched in with sashiko thread, one line at a time. Every stitch is intentionally visible because the point isn't to hide the repair. The point is to celebrate it.
The piece reads two ways. Up close, it looks like Japanese mending tradition. From a distance, it looks like American patchwork. Both readings are correct. The denim doesn't have to choose.
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