Rope Hime

In Rope Hime, the kimono is not worn as tradition dictates—it is inhabited, re-styled, and interwoven with skipping ropes, water pipes, and a UFO-like hair perm machine. These objects are not random props but extensions of a single garment: the rope vest, reimagined through the language of fashion styling. By placing a body between the cultural weight of the kimono and the utilitarian presence of everyday hardware, I explore how clothing can become sculpture, how styling can be a site of negotiation between heritage and contemporaneity. This work is both playful and deliberate, asking how desire, materiality, and cultural codes can co-exist in one frame.