TYIJA

We are a tech-driven retailer building the bridge between past and future archive. TYIJA (pronounced "Tee-Yah"), is the metamorphosis of Aoyama Archive.

04/08/2023

Collection Privee? coat and Lutz Huelle flawless coordination in FRUiTS mag 2003. A leather deformation cargo skirt from the same era is available online along with FRUiTS issue #71

03/08/2023

Tsumori Chisato campaign for So-En 1998 entitled ‘faster, higher, stronger’ by Patti Smith’s photographer Yoshie Tominaga, Hair and overall direction by Katsuya Kamo.

01/08/2023

Helmut Lang spring 1990; I’ve scanned in some favourite looks from a collection which strangely opposes the signature DNA of the Austrian revolutionary bold recluse, seperate from what people may know of. It’s staggering to think that this came 33 years ago with such relevance in the current scheme of things. Tattooed garments in a similar time to Martin Margiela’s interpretation, ethnic beading, layered gathered tulle and reinterpretations of conventional garments with juxtaposed tying.

Fans have longed for a continuation of the house with the right creative director to take the reigns and steer it in the right direction. Whether or not the newly appointed designer will or not is too soon to say, but in true Helmut Lang format is to go against the grain rather than to regurgitate the same old bo***ge, astro, bulletproof re-editions whilst catering to the audience.

28/07/2023

1. Issey Miyake spring 2005 reversible ruched track jacket
2. John Galliano spring 2007 knit patchwork mini dress
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Available via DM

27/07/2023

What’s the most sentimental piece in your wardrobe that you’ll never part with?

At eighteen years old, every consecutive week I would go to a specific magazine store that housed all the international magazines to view current editorials and collections. This was the only way to see them at the time, in print.

One day, I came in and saw this editorial in i-D entitled ‘Stan’ about a French boy who photographer Kacper Kasprzyk and stylist Hannes Hetta met out and about in Paris. He works as a film technician in movies and TV set productions with the dream to become an American vintage car dealer specialising in rare models. I wonder to this day if this ever happened?

Nevertheless, the sweater shown here is from the Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme fall 2009 collection, an intarsia knit of a peeing boy. This happens to be a statue situated at the top of a V-shaped valley along the Iya River in Tokushima island. The little boy represents stories of local children who tested their courage by standing atop the cliff.

After seeing this editorial I manifested my reality and months later got my hands onto it despite at the time thinking it was near impossible. Today it still stands, has multiple holes and is yet to see the real statue in the flesh. One day..

26/07/2023

in the Yoshiki Hishinuma fall 1997 shibori top from Koenji Dolls for issue #61. Top available online, link in bio. Photography by Takashi Homma , styling .eb000
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Hood by .yagi x (special thanks), arm warmers

25/07/2023

Fred Sathal spring 1997 ‘Against Nature’. — having gone through thousands of collections, periodically I can’t help think about the fact that some designers were ahead of their time, some collections were showcased in the right place at the right time, and some not. This doesn’t determine whether one is adequate or not, but when I look at Fred Sathal’s early work I wonder if this were released in todays climate.

Undercover’s fall 2005 ‘arts & crafts’ before arts & crafts, scab before scab.

20/07/2023

Ann Demeulemeester’s spring 1997: scans of some favourite looks showing a very different side to the DNA of the house that most are aware of, well before the carved out post 2000s Patti Smith era. The house has copped a lot of critique in finding the right creative director since her departure, and in my opinion a revisiting of her earlier work is much more relatable today than ever before, particularly during a recession.

Some further thoughts that crossed my mind were that it would have been interesting to see who would have taken reigns for two seasons during the Ruffo Research project’s existence. Queen Ann would have been well suited alongside Veronique Branquinho, A.F Vandervorst and Sophia Kokosolaki. A revisiting of this would perhaps be cherished today through several designers that have fallen through the radar?

02/07/2023

Junya Watanabe spring 2002 denim mermaid jacket. Watanabe’s constant affinity with everything ‘mermaid’ began with this singular collection. Virtually every designer today putting out collections with a strong focus on washed-out distressed and re-purposed denim has drawn inspiration from the origins of this singular collection. Many of the details that were consistent throughout the collection were aimed at mimicking 19th century garments with a b***d bodice, such as the inside-out of a conventional corset.

Available online now.

29/06/2023

Thierry Mugler Ribbed Bat Corsets 🦇

Available online now. Link in bio

25/06/2023

Mechanical Couture — a series of garments by Issey Miyake x Dyson spring 2008 ‘The Wind’, by creative director Dai Fujiwara in collaboration with James Dyson.

A collection exploring the increasingly prominent role machines are playing in redefining haute couture. Shelley Fox uses MRI scans of a Dyson DC16 vacuum cleaner which creates fat-maps or blueprints to design a collection of garments. Dai Fujiwara, a textile scientist and inventor of A-POC (a piece of cloth) examined disassembled parts of the Dyson to reproduce the internal mechanical forms as design solutions that were directly translated into the garments through pattern making and the toiling process. The fat-maps are enmeshed into the fabric like jacquard, using the A-POC patented computer technology.

Fujiwara ensures the design and engineering of the pieces are enmeshed in the clothing, which becomes a metaphor for the collaboration itself.

Two of the three garments are available online now. Link in bio!

01/05/2023

Fly with Issey Miyake, 1977 book for Parco.

Never seen before photos of issey in New York celebrating his fall 1977 collection with friends Grace Jones and Iman. Collaborators are by the likes of Ikko Tanaka, Eiko Ishioka and Kazumi Shinoyama. Available online. Link in bio

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