HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT
This is a project to listen to important stories from the past from people who have fascinating jobs and lives, and as makers of memory flower lace, create and give away  修道服 (守導服)  that protect precious memories and guide them into a new future.
Memory 05 : Mei Ehara (Artist)
We gave her a lace of pansies.
What Mei said about her grandmother made a deep impression on us, as she sometimes wonders if there are many stories about her life that she never got to hear from her bedridden grandmother, who is still unable to speak to her since she entered her thirties.  She sometimes thinks that if she had been able to talk to her grandmother, she might have been able to build a closer relationship with her.

On the other hand, Mei's grandmother was a woman who always enjoyed being a woman, no matter how old she was. Seeing her grandmother's figure, she said she sometimes felt embarrassed when she was a child, but now she wants to emulate her grandmother's example.
We felt that her atmosphere, the things she made, and the memories she shared with us were all wonderful, and we wanted to present her with clothes that would help her express her many charms in her own way. ​​​​​​​
Memory 04 : Hideka (Hair stylist)
We gave her a lace of aconaites.
Hideka told us that she hated to lose when she was young. She shared some charming episodes with us, which made us feel that she was always making efforts to achieve the goals she set for herself.
When she started her career as a hair stylist, she tried to watch as many movies as she could on her days off and after work, as she thought it would be helpful for her hair arrangement.​​​​​​​
After listening to her story, we thought we would like to present her with a work wear, as she values her work so much. She told us that hair stylists have a hard time wearing knitwear because they inevitably get hair on their clothes, so we made her a knit jumpsuit that looked like flowers wrapped in oblongs.

We also chose "aconite" as the flower that would match her memory. I felt that she must have made a sincere effort to make her dream come true, and I felt that the flower's word "chivalry" was a perfect match. The aconite flower is also called "monk's hood" because its shape resembles a hood. Since the main character in the movie "The Piano Lesson," which she recommended to me, also wears a hood, I also made a hood with aconite embroidered on it.
Memory 03 : Kazuhei Kimura (Photographer)
We gave him a lace of fennel.
When he was a child, classical ballet was a part of his life because of his older sister's influence. At the time, she encouraged him to take lessons, but he was too shy to give it up. However, she found a photo of him at age 3 standing on tiptoe in his sister's toe shoes in a family album, and she realized that he had a yearning for ballet. He told us that this was when he started photographing ballet class recitals as his artwork.
He also says that he has a natural predisposition for cute things, and that he often chooses cute things naturally, even though she does not directly want to wear them.
We felt that he always keeps romantic feelings inside, and we wanted to make clothes with lace in hidden places. We presented him with a reversible smock that only the wearer's hands can directly touch the lace and a pair of indoor shoes with lace on the bottom of the shoes that only the wearer can notice.
Memory 02 : Madoka Hayasaki ( Flower artist)
We gave her a lace of elemulus.
Her love of clothes has led her to expand her connections with people, and she has met people she considers important, leading her to her current job.

We asked her in detail about her favorite details and the size she was used to wearing, and we created and presented her with a lace suit decorated with elemulus flowers that symbolized her love of clothes.
We photographed her as if we were capturing her daily life, accompanying her through the process of wrapping flowers after work and going to her favorite bar.
Memory 01 : Momoko Nakamura
She says that her mother, grandmother, and her were very much influenced by the two of them, as they spent their childhoods living and traveling together in the same house as sisters. She says that her mother's work as an illustrator was also influenced by the same job.
 When her grandmother passed away last year, she told us about how she and her mother drew a picture on the coffin to send her off. 
We lend memories from her about her mother, her grandmother and her, and we thought her memories were similar to the legend of the tulip, so we gave her a tulip lace items.
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"Legend of the tulip"
Once upon a time, there lived in a town in the Netherlands.
Three knights fell in love with a girl. The knights tried to win the girl's favour.
They sent crowns, swords, jewels, gold and silver one after another.
The shy girl was at a loss for what to do.
She asked Flora, the goddess of flowers, to give her a beautiful flower.
The result is a new, more beautiful, and more powerful version of the original. The flower had 'crown' petals, 'sword' leaves and a 'golden' bulb. Eventually, people began to call the flower 'tulip'.
The name "tulip" was coined.
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We made clothes from the memories she lent us, choosing memories relating to her relationship with her grandmother and her mother.
We thought they were all very precious and wonderful stories : how she were influenced by her mother to become an illustrator, how her painting style was formed, how her grandmother's bones are carefully displayed in her home, how all three of them were as close as sisters.
That is why we have created items that can become part of the trinity. When she wear all three items, she can wear it like a single dress.
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