Artist: CHISATO ISHIKAWA

“The theme of my work is clothes that cannot be put on,” she says.

Chisato Ishikawa is a newcomer with a very strong, surreal sensibility for depicting disembodiment, an evocative image of rearranging, reclassifying, rethinking fashion consumption. She studied fashion design at university but then took this unique path as an artist after the idea came to her while making a pattern one day.

“The theme of my work is clothes that cannot be put on,” she says. “I make only one work with the same paper pattern.” She sews all her work herself and emphasizes that she works alone.

Chisato was born in 1980 in Kyoto, Japan. In 2003, she graduated from The Kobe Design University. In 2004, she began her work as an artist.

THE INTERVIEW

wwm: Do you use clothes that you have worn or owned?

CI: I don’t use used clothes for my work. I also rarely wear used clothing.

wwm: What are some of your favorite fashion designers?

CI: Rei Kawakubo. I like her stance on creation but I don’t have even a single item of her clothing.

wwm: Who are some of your favorite artists or musicians?

CI: M.C.Escher and René Magritte.

wwm: Name three of your favorite things.

CI: People-watching, the color gray, and geometric graphics – squares, circles, etc.

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