Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Fumiaki Nakagawa - Make-up Artist

photo Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I met the make up artist Fumi Nakagawa in Hyeres. He was part of the Graham Tabor team.

photo Miguel Villalobos

D:What does beauty mean to you?
F: it’s being oneself with significant other,

D: How long have you been doing what you do and how did you get started?
F: I have been doing makeup
for 10 years. I wanted to have a job that involved creative photo shoots.
So, I had looked at fashion and art
magazines all of the time. When I was 19, I met a makeup artist and I decided to assist
him. But unfortunately Osaka has few chances for fashion. So I moved
to New York.

D: Up until now, what has been your most challenging assignment?

F: It was my first fashion show in new York two years
after I moved to new York and I did not have the confidence to speak English yet. It
was good enough to work on photo shoots in English but that was my fist experience and I had
so many assistant. I remember I memorized all of the explanations of makeup the day
before the show; it was like the night before the test in high school. I could not
sleep. I had dark circles under my eyes, I should have covered them up.

D: Can you tell a few incidents around your work, funny, difficult or totally
serene?
F: Sometimes I have difficulty in making a beauty story.

photo Miguel Villalobos
D: How did you meet Graham and how did you get involved in this project?
F: I had worked with chinatsu, hair stylist. One day, I got a
call from her; it was for a photo shoot for a musician. The Photographer was Miguel Villalobos, so
I knew graham through Miguel. Since then we have worked together several times.

One of the shoots was for this project. About two months ago Graham called me and said ’ “come with us!”

D: What was the experience like? Ups and downs?
F: Everyday, I had ups and down experiences hope it’s up and up
and up.

D: Favorite moments?

F: Looking at photos after the shoot.

D: What kind of music do you like to listen to?

F: grunge, alterative, new wave.

D: Does music drive your work or do you prefer to work in silence?
F: I like to listen to my favorite music when I work,

D: Plastic surgery is everywhere these days, what are your thoughts about it?

F: Basically I have negative opinion about plastic surgery,
it's not only because of risk, but I think there is beauty in everybody,
everyone has desire to be beautiful. That’s wonderful thing. Looking at beauty
of us is more important

One thing I agree about plastic surgery is taking off scars and using the surgery to take away a
traumatic memory.

D: Have you noticed that magazines like l?Official have devoted entire issues to the subject?

F: No, i had not tnoticed.

D: What would you like to do that you have not done yet?

photo Miguel Villalobos
I d like to make art book with make up.

www.fumiakin.com.

Later,

Diane

NVU with Chinatsu Nobe, hair stylist

Dear Shaded Viewers,

CHinatsu Nobe at work for Graham Tabor's collection in Hyeres

Graham Tabor and Miguel Villalobos have been talking to me about Chinatsu for probably as long as I've known them so I was very happy to finally meet her and to watch her work at the 23rd edition of the festival d'Hyeres.

DP:How did you get into hair in the first place?
CN: i wanted to be a hair stylist since i was 6 years old. after i graduated in my small home town in Japan from Hair Dressing College i decided to go Tokyo to be professional HAIR_STYLIST but there was nothing that i would love to make and create as just a salon stylist and the work was not inspiring me, at all. at that time, it pretty much felt like I was losing my mind, even who I was, as a person... that's when I decided to come to NYC, by myself. where, little by little, I found myself again.. here i was able to develop myself and find out who i am. Meeting amazing people like Miguel and Graham was essential in that process, to grow into my dream that I had since I was a little girl, of becoming a hairstylist.

DP:Do you think of hair as a form of sculpture?
CN:yes, definitely.

DP:How would you define your work?
CN:nature and forests in particular inspire me strongly as well as as green, flowers, sky, air, stars, clouds, water.

DP:What have been your wildest experiences with hair?
CN:i once used tons and tons of branches of the red pepper plant, for hair.

photo by Minoru Kaburagi

DP: What has been your biggest challenge so far?
CN: i did a shoot couple months ago for Noi.se magazine (UK), where i had to make 10 totally different looks of clowns.

photos by Miguel Villalobos

DP: How did you meet Graham Tabor and how did you get involved in the Hyeres project?
CN:Approximately 3 years ago I met Graham for a test shoot he was styling. A year later I met Graham again backstage at a Karl Lagerfeld show, where we exchanged contact info. A few months after I received an email from Graham to shoot for METAL magazine... Miguel was the photographer on that shoot, which is how I met him. Working with these two talents got me to Hyeres!

Chinatsu Nobe and Kristin Victora Barron

DP: What was the experience like for you?
CN: It showed me that teamwork is everything.

DP: Highs and lows?
CN: Best moment at the Festival was… the hug with Graham when the show was over.
The worst moment was, every time I had to speak, since I don't speak any French…

DP: Do you like to listen to music and if so what kind? Does it have any effect on your work?
CN: Yes, I do. I like to listen to music such as reggae, bossa nova, French music, and of course Japanese music!! Personally I don't think it affects my work, it just makes me relaxed.

CHinatsu

DP: Do you have any hair icons?
CN: I really respect Hair stylist YANNICK DIS. I was his NY first assistant for almost a year that was two years ago. He taught me so many things about how to be and work professionally as a hair stylist. He made my spirit strong, like other hairstylists all over the world still do.

DP: Do you have any desire to work in films? I don't know why but I can feel that in your work.
CN: Yes, I would love to work on films as well.

chinatsu nobe
www.chinatsunobe.comrepresented by SANDBERG agency
www.sandberg-agency.com

NVU WITH CHARLIE LE MINDU, hair stylist

Dear Shaded Viewers,

DP: Let's talk about hair?

CLM: hair hair everywhere

Peaches

DP: How did you get into it in the first place?

CLM: When I was 6 I was doing the hair of my Barbie and I was giving them a Mullet the best was their haircolour!... When they where blonde I liked dunking them in the swimming pool to make their hair green. Not because of the chlorine, but because of the algie.. At 14 I worked at a kind of punk salon in Bordeaux... Even dogs were coming to get their hair trimmed... It was the best salon i ever worked at...

CHarlie Le Mindu
DP: What does your hair look like (send a photo.)
CLM: Well i look like a gypsy... with a rat tail in the back.. chic

DP: How do you work with your subjects?
CLM: Well I use to learn a lot from Vidal Sassoon and Tony & Guy.. Even though I'm not into the style of hair they are doing, I still like a lot of their techniques.. But most of the time it's how I'm feeling which makes me come up with new styles...
I basically choose the type of client I like to cut the hair of in my salon (which is in my flat) or when it's for a photo shoot or video I prefer to do wigs.. it's faster to put on the model and you already have an idea of what it looks like...

DP: Any funny stories about working with 'stars'?
CLM: Probably out of all of my clients, they have the dirtiest hair!... can i say that?

DP: WHat has been the most challenging hair that you have ever done?
CLM: Most recently, it was for the last video I did for Peaches, which is going to be for her new album. I had to do a double quiff like a Teddy Boy in 50's. iI did it in like 4 minutes!.. and then I had to do it again in less than that.. Don't ask me how i did it, but i did..

Ducan and Roxanne

DP: Did you ever have to make great hair with someone that had almost no hair? What did you do?
CLM: Oh yeah I normally use extensions or wigs... but my favourite haircut is when people have hair on the side and bald on the top.. then they let it grow long enough to cover the bald part..

DP: What is the most exotic wig that you ever created?
CLM: I'm making wigs by myself... they take time but they're really original like you can see on the photo.. they are more like wigs you can where as clothes or jewellery because some of them have sleeves, etc...

DP: How did you meet Malcolm Pate?
CLM: I met Malcom on a photo shoot with Gemma Slack for her graduation at school
I was thinking they were just a really good combination .......

DP: How do the two of you work together?
CMD: I have only worked on one photo shoot with him, but hope to work more with him..

DP: Do you work any differently with photographers than directors?

CLM: Well, it's a lot more work for a video... because of all the movement involved and the continual retouching of the hair but once it's fixed in place, it can stay forever.

Planningtorock

DP: WHat kind of music do you like? Does music drive your work at all?
CLM: I love music.. I don t have any preference but the French band KAP BAMBINO and they re driving totally the kind of haircut I'm doing.. i love her style, I think she's the best... and amazing on stage .....
but with all my young clients i love to listen into Diamanda Galas and a glass of wine..

Carrie Mundanne

DP: What projects are you working on now?
CLM: i'm going to open a salon in my new flat..
and do some haircuts in new clubs like Smash and Grab...
But also preparing lot s of wigs for my own show which i m going to do at the end of the years.

thanks
all the best
charlie

www.charlielemindu.com
http://www.myspace.com/charlielemindu

Later,

Diane