@Mel: We actually look for people between 18 and 28, but once people find a job they often don’t have the time or the opportunity to do much on avant-garde fashion, so you end up with many students.

@Maria: I don’t know if Hosaka and Karin know each other. I’ll probably see Hosaka again next week and will then ask him.

@kagitsune: Yes, Comme des Garçons does seem to be more popular recently. I noticed that myself, too.

Please notice that Karin didn’t put on the cardigan like you’d usually do, that’s why it all looks so frumpled and bumpy. It is not rare to see people put on vests, cardigans and skirts upside down, twisted or in any other way the person can imagine.

@Lactose Intoler-Art: The staff of Haight Ashbury write a blog. This is the shop you meant?

@5am je t’aime: I was wondering when Rid and Drop would be posting Karin’s pictures, as photographers of both sites shot her as well (actually the Drop photographer saw me shooting Karin and was waiting for me to finish!). Rid came six days after JS posted Karin’s pictures. Shows how fast we are! ^ _ ^ And the colors of the JS shots look a lot better.

It is one of those moments that makes me very happy with all the effort and attention we put into JS.

Thanks for the encouragement about the JFW shots, 5am je t’aime. The number of comments are lower than usual on the JFW photographs, so I was wondering if we were doing OK… Maybe all those photographs going up everyday are a bit overwhelming?

I know that we are overwhelmed by the sheer number of images. WeI have been shooting several thousand a day this week; it has been extremely hard to keep up. Selecting, editing and uploading takes much time—when it goes well, between one and two hours per show.