@Mel: Or “black hair suits him.”

@vivi: I hadn’t paid attention to that at all, but you are right, beautiful hands!

@Etsune: Yes, he is. My guess is around 180 cm. Glad you like Hosaka’s hands, too.

@Etsune: ^ _ ^

@Etsune: The average is around 158 cm.

@Etsune: Yes, at JS we already thought that you made a calculation error somehow. No problem at all. As it happens, you are exactly the Japanese average! You will be able to shop everywhere in Japan.

@Etsune: Yes, 130 cm for a fully grown girl seemed just a bit too short, although there always exceptions of course. That’s why we figured you may not be familiar with centimeters. We is some of the other team members and myself. I covered the Japan Fashion Week with an Australian and French woman, and two Japanese staff members.

@Etsune: Yes, we did. I actually took all the photos of the shows myself.

@Etsune: Become a photographer or writer and you can watch the shows, too. ^ _ –

@Etsune: All photographers knew nothing about photography at one time. ^ _ –

Yes, the spikes are a bit in the shadow. When I shot Hosaka’s shoes I was actually wondering if I should make the spikes more obvious.

@Maria: The shows are by invitation only. Usually the press, photographers, buyers, and special clients and friends are invited.

@Etsune: I am both a photographer and journalist, actually. I am officially a news photographer and journalist, but fashion is becoming an increasingly larger part of my workload. My other specialty is photographing and writing about natural disasters; I have covered all the largest earthquakes in Asia since 1995, including the 2004 tsunami. I love how your work there really helps people (I donate my photos to organizations like the Red Cross).

See some non-fashion work here:

• Pakistan flood victims pleased with US aid
• Pakistani children on the motorway

The above two articles were written in Dutch; the English translation is really bad—I should have written it in English myself.

Don’t forget to click on the slideshow below each article!

And a slideshow of some of my work at lightstalkers. All of it quite old, but it gives a good overview.

@Maria: Thanks!