The person is reflected in the T-shirt. ONICA designer Akino Kurosawa

It's just a T-shirt, but it's still a T-shirt. Each T-shirt tells an eloquent story of the owner's life. We asked ONICA designer Akino Kurosawa to tell us about her favorite T-shirts.

First published in BRUTUS No. 1014, "I wanted a T-shirt like this." (Released August 16, 2024)

photo: Ding Ding / text: Shoko Yoshida / edit: Tamio Ogasawara

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Graphic T-shirts are a time machine that takes you back to the past

In autumn and winter, I only wear ONICA knitwear to try on, so spring and summer are the seasons when I can enjoy clothes freely. I wear T-shirts casually, but when I look at the graphics on them after a few years, I feel a sense of nostalgia as the series of events that happened when I bought them come back to me as memories.

The same goes for a T-shirt I bought at Flow Festival, a music festival held every summer while studying abroad in Helsinki, which is a merchandise by Haim, a band of three sisters from California. It reminds me of the lead singer apologizing for not being able to sing at all because she had a cold, how I worked hard on my thesis while listening to their songs, and the most amazing summer I had ever had. I think T-shirts have the power to suddenly bring back memories of the past that we spent without thinking about it.

HAIM band print T-shirt
The official Heim tour T-shirt features the three sisters as dogs. Kurosawa prefers T-shirts made from materials that do not contain synthetic fibers.

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