NIKO Designer Akutsu Launches shuku+ga Photo Project With Kawashima Exhibition
A fashion designer's project reframes unremarkable days as occasions for celebration, packaged as a limited wearable, readable, and hangable set with a free gallery show.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
NIKO designer Isaku Akutsu has started shuku+ga (祝＋我), a project that celebrates ordinary days. The first installment is a limited set combining a brass necklace, a 60-page zine, and an A2 poster, with an exhibition and order sales at AL in Daikanyama, Tokyo from September 25 to 27, 2026. Photographer Kotori Kawashima shot 10 subjects including Ayumi Tanabe and TAEHEON. A Seoul tour is planned for November.
The project's stated theme is that even a day with nothing on it is someone's special day, and the set is designed to be read, hung on a wall, and worn. The ZINE SET costs 18,700 yen including tax, limited to 300 sets with 100 for each of the three brass necklace designs: HEART, OYSTER, and BIRD. Each necklace carries a serial number.
Admission to the Daikanyama exhibition is free, and Akutsu plans to be present throughout the three days. A reception open to anyone is scheduled for 5 p.m. on the opening day.
- HIMARI
- NIKO (TOMORROW TOKYO)
- Daiki Iwamoto (VELBED.)
- TAEHEON
- PINO
- GINGA & REN
- RYUJI
- NACHI
- Ayumi Tanabe
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