The woman behind the mask
I just watched this documentary together with Valerie (Miss Singapore 2011) at the office.
Such an incredible insight into a unique community… meet Dominique and her masks
Photo shooting
Did you know that it takes that many talented people to make you look good on a magazine picture? Well, this is the reality and they never appear anywhere…. I would like to celebrate all the artists out there.
They wait for hours in small dressing rooms and in the studio, they carry very heavy bags with stuff back & forth, they wake-up at dawn to make sure they arrive before the talent and their management. They are the last to leave the studio when it is pitch dark outside, they barely see the sun sometimes for days. They sleep almost zero and they always give 100%.
To the countless artists, stylists with whom I worked up to today, I thank you, respect you and miss you all.
WHO? On this shoot, working with 2 artists, with whom I have worked for years in Japan+ Akiko (make)and Sunao (hair) FOR? Maquia Magazine WHY? I had to transform 3 readers of the magazine plus the editor herself!
My little Japanese niece Rina, the latest addition to our family.
My little Japanese niece Rina, the latest addition to our family.
I love how little children smell clean, they have no toxin yet in their system also they smell like soap. Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.
Where: at Gompachi in Nishi Azabu, Tokyo.
Celebrating 2014 arriving in a few hours, spending the last moments of 2013 together. 2013 took away 2 members of our family also we are together, standing strong toward the next year, it is going to be a good year! It has to be, as 2013 was such a challenging one for our family.
