With the appearance of three unique characters—a skier, an astronaut, and a climber—the ENCHANT print is transformed into a stage adorned with colorful flags, outer space, and vibrant bouldering holds. This film captures the positive spirit of PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE, which delights simply by being worn. We have released a special film that expresses the worlds of the print series “ONE STEP,” featuring characters from a variety of professions, and “ENCHANT,” a distinctive dotted pattern series that invites free imagination of any situation. Focusing on the skier, astronaut, and climber from the ONE STEP characters, the video gently brings out each character’s individuality in a relaxed manner. Focusing on the skier, astronaut, and climber from among the ONE STEP characters, we created a video that freely expresses each character’s individuality.

train Isn’t there something ahead? I move forward, thinking there must be something beautiful. There was nothing ahead that I imagined. I know things won’t go the way I want, but I still keep searching. Still, if I keep walking, maybe there will be something there, so I go on. I often ride trains.　 I board without thinking about anything, or about where I’m going. My imagination expands, wondering whether there might be something at the end of the train’s journey. Riding a train is like the path I’ve taken so far. I can’t help imagining that there must be something ideal waiting ahead. But the path I’ve walked has been very different from what I imagined. Trains often go into tunnels. If I ride without thinking about anything, the train emerges from the tunnel. My imagination runs freely, as if there must be something ahead. When the train comes out of the tunnel, the thing I’m looking for should surely be there. While thinking about this work, I realized that my life is like riding a train, as if I were going in search of something certain. There is something certain. I aimed to create a work that goes in search of something, to find something.

I expressed the inseparable connection with the world of the soul and the inspiration that links them. The spiritual world of the soul and inspiration, the unreal and the invisible, are portrayed in black and white to emphasize that they are inseparable, or that they exist beside people and life and are essential. This keyword, “the invisible parts,” comes from the artist’s own sense of discomfort with the accelerating, defined notion of what is normal and with trends. In truth, the world is driven by the parts that are hardly shown in the media. Above all, I wanted to depict the universal truth that the invisible parts of the heart and soul and the movements of reality are inseparable, and I created the story of a girl who sees in the world of the soul the inspiration that there is no future in a world without a heart.

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