Long time no see, it's MAIMI. How are you all doing?
I'm super energetic. My mind is splashing. I talked about it a little bit on the PODCAST, but
I decided to launch "MyMe" as KOBINAI's second label. It's born!!
Today is the launch!
Sometimes I can't express myself well when I speak, but I hope I can convey it better through writing. So I'm writing this blog post. (When I talk to myself, I always get confused. Someone, please be by my side!!!)
The reason I launched it in the first place is that the things I've been thinking and feeling lately have become more complex and extremely personal. When I thought about how I could express these feelings impulsively, I thought, "That's right, I'll just make it an experimental label where I express what I feel whenever I want, and create whatever comes to mind."
So, I created a super emotional, impulsive, and spontaneous label.
Of course, this "My Me" label's policy also overlaps with KOBINAI's 🕸️
"I don't know if I'm twisted or the world is twisted or you're twisted, but in this twisted world, I want to pull out my other self and dance 💃🕺"
I created a label with such a policy.
Who is this "other self"?
What is this "twisted world"?
Regarding this, everyone must have an "other self." Even if you haven't faced it, there's always another you inside you. It's not that you're hiding that self, but it's latent, and depending on the situation, if there were A and B, A or B would appear.
Wouldn't it be super interesting if A and B came out at the same time and danced? So, I pulled them out and tried dancing, and it was incredibly fun.
That's why I made that my policy.
It seemed easy, but it was quite difficult to bring out two selves at the same time. Why couldn't I do it in the first place? I thought about it, and I guess there was a thought that if both came out, everything would change, and that turned into hesitation.
It's okay if everything changes, but still, change itself often turns out to be not that big of a deal after it happens, but before it happens, you hesitate. I felt that.
Other policies are "STAY YOUNG FOREVER" and "PEACE in MY MIND," which are also shared with KOBINAI.
These two.
"STAY YOUNG FOREVER" means "stay a child." When you become an adult, you stop coloring outside the lines, like when you used to color your mom red. You feel like you have to be "normal" and like everyone else, so you become afraid of stepping outside the lines and hide the "expression" and "art" that humans are inherently equipped with.
Deep, deep, deep down. You might have been laughed at once, called strange, or ostracized or pointed at and laughed at for stepping outside the lines.
In my case, that didn't happen (or maybe I just didn't notice). I don't care. Of course, it might differ depending on personality and character, but it's okay to not be like everyone else; in fact, being different is better, and I've never consciously tried not to stand out.
When I was in elementary school, there was a girl in my class who loved dinosaurs. Everyone secretly treated her as a weirdo, but she could explain over 100 types of dinosaurs and mimic their various roars. I found her interesting, so I often went to her house and listened to her talk about dinosaurs forever.
She looked cool.
I envied her for having something she loved so much that she could get lost in it.
I digress, but there's no need for her to hide that individuality just because she's grown up. If you like something, like it, and like it more.
Firstly, when does one become an adult? If you think about it, no one is really an adult. They're just pretending to be. Some people might think it's super cool to be stylish and composed, but I don't find such people interesting. I want to be with people who are passionate, more down-to-earth, childlike, and always seem to be having fun.
I'm not dissing people who are stylish and composed. I just prefer to be with passionate and clumsy people.
For me, "fashion" is something very close, yet from a certain perspective, it's unapproachable and very scary. This isn't limited to "fashion"; I think it applies to all things called "industries." Sometimes I feel like there's an invisible line drawn somewhere that says, "It has to be this way" or "This is cool."
"It has to be this way" floats around unknowingly in the world, and if you break those rules, new "it has to be this way" rules will appear unknowingly again.
That's why I decided to be experimental and unconventional, to do various things when I want to create, when I want to release, and follow my emotions. It doesn't even have to be clothes.
To return to the topic, "STAY YOUNG FOREVER" is about stepping outside the lines, painting freely, and staying in that feeling from back then! Let's play! That's it.
"PEACE in MY MIND" means "peace is within oneself." Regarding "peace," I've talked about it a lot before, but world peace is too grand and hard to grasp, and it feels distant, doesn't it?
When I thought about it that way, the closest "peace" is something you can create yourself, cultivate within yourself, and that spreads to those around you, to your family, to your friends, groups, communities, towns, companies, organizations...<<<<<
and gets bigger little by little.
I think that chain reaction is a peace chain.
After all, peace is good, right? I think that every time I watch the news. For that, we have no choice but to cultivate the "peace" within ourselves.
Lately, I often use the expression "twisted world." This isn't just now; it might have been the case in the past too, but there's no doubt that something has become excessively strange. What can we do in this twisted world we live in? Isn't it about how much peace we can cultivate within ourselves and enjoy dancing in this twisted world?
There are ridiculous things happening in the world, things that annoy you, things that feel off, things you can't do anything about (like politics!!!) so much that you get so angry your head explodes!
But just being angry won't solve anything. Before, I was super angry and spoke out in a furious rage. While anger is a powerful force, it's also a negative, and anger breeds anger, and when it reaches its peak, I felt it could lead to destruction.
That's why, "PEACE in MY MIND."
You should speak up and voice your opinions.
But that should be expressing opinions, not anger.
What I've written so far is My Me's policy.
The name also plays on MAIMI, haha.
"My" (my)
"Me" (me)
It means "the me within me" (myself and my other self).
The clothes this time
express exactly what I felt during my trip to Europe.
I combined street scenes photographed during my trip to Europe with my own graphics and words, exploding with the overwhelming thoughts I had.
The overwhelming thoughts included both discoveries and good and bad aspects. All of them combined.
My Me's Thoughts! (A slightly longer read)
Hello there~~~
Long time no see, it's MAIMI.
How are you all doing?
I'm super energetic. My mind is splashing.
I talked about it a little bit on the PODCAST, but
I decided to launch "MyMe" as KOBINAI's second label. It's born!!
Today is the launch!
Sometimes I can't express myself well when I speak, but I hope I can convey it better through writing. So I'm writing this blog post.
(When I talk to myself, I always get confused. Someone, please be by my side!!!)
The reason I launched it in the first place is that the things I've been thinking and feeling lately have become more complex and extremely personal. When I thought about how I could express these feelings impulsively, I thought,
"That's right, I'll just make it an experimental label where I express what I feel whenever I want, and create whatever comes to mind."
So, I created a super emotional, impulsive, and spontaneous label.
Of course, this "My Me" label's policy also overlaps with KOBINAI's 🕸️
"I don't know if I'm twisted or the world is twisted or you're twisted, but in this twisted world, I want to pull out my other self and dance 💃🕺"
I created a label with such a policy.
Who is this "other self"?
What is this "twisted world"?
Regarding this, everyone must have an "other self."
Even if you haven't faced it, there's always another you inside you.
It's not that you're hiding that self, but it's latent, and depending on the situation, if there were A and B, A or B would appear.
Wouldn't it be super interesting if A and B came out at the same time and danced?
So, I pulled them out and tried dancing, and it was incredibly fun.
That's why I made that my policy.
It seemed easy, but it was quite difficult to bring out two selves at the same time.
Why couldn't I do it in the first place?
I thought about it, and I guess there was a thought that if both came out, everything would change, and that turned into hesitation.
It's okay if everything changes, but still, change itself often turns out to be not that big of a deal after it happens, but before it happens, you hesitate. I felt that.
Other policies are "STAY YOUNG FOREVER" and "PEACE in MY MIND," which are also shared with KOBINAI.
These two.
"STAY YOUNG FOREVER" means "stay a child."
When you become an adult, you stop coloring outside the lines, like when you used to color your mom red. You feel like you have to be "normal" and like everyone else, so you become afraid of stepping outside the lines and hide the "expression" and "art" that humans are inherently equipped with.
Deep, deep, deep down. You might have been laughed at once, called strange, or ostracized or pointed at and laughed at for stepping outside the lines.
In my case, that didn't happen (or maybe I just didn't notice). I don't care. Of course, it might differ depending on personality and character, but it's okay to not be like everyone else; in fact, being different is better, and I've never consciously tried not to stand out.
When I was in elementary school, there was a girl in my class who loved dinosaurs.
Everyone secretly treated her as a weirdo, but she could explain over 100 types of dinosaurs and mimic their various roars.
I found her interesting, so I often went to her house and listened to her talk about dinosaurs forever.
She looked cool.
I envied her for having something she loved so much that she could get lost in it.
I digress, but there's no need for her to hide that individuality just because she's grown up. If you like something, like it, and like it more.
Firstly, when does one become an adult?
If you think about it, no one is really an adult. They're just pretending to be.
Some people might think it's super cool to be stylish and composed, but I don't find such people interesting.
I want to be with people who are passionate, more down-to-earth, childlike, and always seem to be having fun.
I'm not dissing people who are stylish and composed.
I just prefer to be with passionate and clumsy people.
For me, "fashion" is something very close, yet from a certain perspective, it's unapproachable and very scary. This isn't limited to "fashion"; I think it applies to all things called "industries." Sometimes I feel like there's an invisible line drawn somewhere that says, "It has to be this way" or "This is cool."
"It has to be this way" floats around unknowingly in the world, and if you break those rules, new "it has to be this way" rules will appear unknowingly again.
That's why I decided to be experimental and unconventional, to do various things when I want to create, when I want to release, and follow my emotions.
It doesn't even have to be clothes.
To return to the topic, "STAY YOUNG FOREVER" is about
stepping outside the lines, painting freely, and staying in that feeling from back then!
Let's play! That's it.
"PEACE in MY MIND" means "peace is within oneself."
Regarding "peace," I've talked about it a lot before, but world peace is too grand and hard to grasp, and it feels distant, doesn't it?
When I thought about it that way, the closest "peace" is something you can create yourself, cultivate within yourself, and that spreads to those around you, to your family, to your friends, groups, communities, towns, companies, organizations...<<<<<
and gets bigger little by little.
I think that chain reaction is a peace chain.
After all, peace is good, right? I think that every time I watch the news.
For that, we have no choice but to cultivate the "peace" within ourselves.
Lately, I often use the expression "twisted world." This isn't just now; it might have been the case in the past too, but there's no doubt that something has become excessively strange. What can we do in this twisted world we live in?
Isn't it about how much peace we can cultivate within ourselves and enjoy dancing in this twisted world?
There are ridiculous things happening in the world, things that annoy you, things that feel off, things you can't do anything about (like politics!!!) so much that you get so angry your head explodes!
But just being angry won't solve anything.
Before, I was super angry and spoke out in a furious rage. While anger is a powerful force, it's also a negative, and anger breeds anger, and when it reaches its peak, I felt it could lead to destruction.
That's why, "PEACE in MY MIND."
You should speak up and voice your opinions.
But that should be expressing opinions, not anger.
What I've written so far is My Me's policy.
The name also plays on MAIMI, haha.
"My" (my)
"Me" (me)
It means "the me within me"
(myself and my other self).
The clothes this time
express exactly what I felt during my trip to Europe.
I combined street scenes photographed during my trip to Europe with my own graphics and words, exploding with the overwhelming thoughts I had.
The overwhelming thoughts included both discoveries and good and bad aspects.
All of them combined.
I'll write about that in the next blog post.
It got long, but
thanks for reading this far d(￣ ￣)