NORITAKA TATEHANA A/W 10-11 COLLECTION EXHIBITION A/W 10-11 ” THE LADY VIOLA MUSEUM – THE FEMALE KNIGHT’S ARMOR SHOE COLLECTION -”
7.25(sun)-8.1(sun) 11:00-19:00 at NORITAKA TATEHANA Atelier in Tokyo
A/W 10-11 ” THE LADY VIOLA MUSEUM -Woman knight’s Armor shoes collection- ” は中世を勇敢に戦い抜いた架空の女騎士の鎧を博物館の収蔵品に見立て展示致します。皮革を染めるところから始まりエンボス加工から形成まで全ての行程を手作業でこなすNORITAKATATEHANAのコレクションラインは国内外から多くの賞賛の声を頂いております。作品は展示会終了後NORITAKA TATEHANAのWEBSITEより世界中から注文が可能になります。
Noritaka Tatehana has become the most high-profile shoe maker in Japan in just a few hort months this year. This has mainly been down to one Lady Gaga strutting around the world wearing his designs – falling off them at Heathrow, posing in them for Terry Richardson for rolling Stone. After a launch party this Saturday night in Velors Tatehanas new A/W collection exhibition starts Sunday 25th at his Tokyo Atelier. I don’t usually copy and paste PR/press blurbs but this one says everything I wan to say better than i could say it….
‘The collection will be displayed as a museum exhibit of armor worn by a fictitious female knight, who fought courageously in the Middle Ages. The collections of Noritaka Tatehana, who manages the whole process from dyeing and embossing of leather to the creation of shoes using hand-executed techniques, have been receiving praises at home and abroad. His collection will be available on the NORITAKA TATEHANA website after the exhibition is
over.
He started learning painting when he was 15, and at around the same time, started to make shoes on his own. After enrolling in the university, he took courses in art history, and also in arts and crafts history. He learned the Japanese traditional dyeing and weaving techniques. While he was in school, he mainly worked on kimono and geta (wooden clogs), but simultaneously, he launched his own NORITAKA TATEHANA brand, introducing lines of luxurious
leather shoes and bags. The necessary techniques for making these shoes and bags were all self-taught.’