Tamae Hirokawa is a fashion designer specializing in the creation of seamless knit wear. A graduate of Bunka Fashion College, she went on to be mentored by Issey Miyake. While in charge of knitwear and managing the men’s collection, then moving onto the women’s collection with Miyake she established SOMA DESIGN in 2006, which brought together fashion, graphic, sound and visual design. Concurrently, she launched the design project "SOMARTA” and her "Skin Series," fashion which embodies a second skin using seamless knit technology based on the concept of expanding "the possibilities of clothing on the body.” Skin Series garments incorporate patterns over the whole body comprised of artisan-crafted decorations and embroidery created through a seamless manufacturing process. Hirokawa’s designs have been worn by artists in Japan and abroad, including Lady Gaga and Madonna. In 2017, fashions from SOMARTA's signature "Skin Series" were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, attracting worldwide attention. In 2014, she held a solo exhibition "Tamae Hirokawa: Genealogy of the Body" at Shibuya Seibu in Tokyo, and in 2021-22 she was invited as the guest artist for the Oita Prefecture arts festival, “in BEPPU" where she designed a dazzling multi- media exhibition on the theme of matsuri or “festival". Tamae Hirokawa Fashion Designer Representing Fukuoka Prefecture, Hakata Ward of Fukuoka City (Kyushu)
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