D-Genesis: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 9] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub

February 5, 2019 (Tuesday)

Chelsea, Lower Manhattan, New York City

Fashion Week’s women’s events were set to kick off on the seventh with a Ralph Lauren show. The men’s shows had just started, with events popping up all over town.

“You’re too present. You’re drowning out the clothes,” Haruka’s director had told her. She was sitting outside the studio, reflecting on his words. “No good. The only outfits that can stand up to you are the centerpiece coutures.”

There was no way those outfits would get passed off to a fledgling model. Haruka smiled. The very aura she’d started dungeon diving to achieve was now getting in her way. Life could be funny that way...

Each day in New York had felt like a dream, but each day had also shown her just how much she didn’t know.

For example, there were the protests—anti-Fashion Week demonstrations. Apparently two years ago they’d been quite disruptive, but had tapered off in scale thanks to the British Fashion Council’s banning of fur and investing in more sustainable production methods and materials.

Due to that, this year fur was out and feathers were in among the luxury brands. Haruka wasn’t sure what separated fowl from other fauna, but it wasn’t her problem.

She was a technician—her job was simply to show off the outfits and make them look stunning. Then again, perhaps her lack of prior thought regarding the materials was preventing her from reaching her full potential.

In the meantime, she focused on how she could erase her own presence in her movement—to create the illusion that the clothes were moving on their own. The direction of creases and wrinkles. The angle and distance that would best show off the contours and drape. Where to speed up and where to slow down, all to hold the audience’s eye, not on her, but on the design she was wearing. She sunk deeper and deeper into a sea of meditative thought.

When she came to, she noticed she was being leered at by a rather strange Buddha statue not far from one of the benches outside Pier59 Studios, one of the main venues for the week’s events.

“Something bothering you too?” she asked, addressing the silent statue.

She took out her phone and snapped a picture to send to Ryoko. “Weird Buddha statue,” the message read.

Come to think of it, she’d have to get something to send Yoshimura and Miyoshi too. Valentine’s Day was just around the corner. She took her phone back out and started searching for New York chocolatiers.

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