Latitude  ·  The editor

Sachio Kawasaki

Founding Editor, LATITUDE · Founder & Creative Director, VUAL

Sachio Kawasaki
Education
MA Fashion, Central Saint Martins
Career
Trained at Balenciaga. Founded and ran his own label
Now
Founder & Creative Director, VUAL. Founding Editor, LATITUDE
Publisher
VUAL (LUFIS Co., Ltd.)
Based in
United Kingdom

Sachio Kawasaki is the founding editor of LATITUDE, a travelling issue published by VUAL. Each issue is one day in one real place: the traveller is imagined, the place and one fact about it are real.

The pictures and films are made with AI. The editor decides what is filmed and what stays: the route of the day, the light at each hour, which of hundreds of stills are used, what is cut, and when an issue is finished by hand.

Kawasaki completed the MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins, trained at Balenciaga, and went on to found and run his own label. VUAL brings that eye, formed on the floor of high fashion, together with new technology.

He spent about seven years in London as a fashion student, and some of the issues carry a memory from those years.

Rules kept across every issue

  1. The title is the latitude and the city. Chapters move by the clock.
  2. One day, one outfit. The clothes change only when the day gives a reason.
  3. Each issue carries one real thing: a fact checked before we begin, or the editor’s own memory.
  4. A picture that is true to the facts is not always one you can watch. Deciding is the job.

Memories in the issues

51.5° N London
Seven years a fashion student in London. Music for 18 Musicians at the Barbican.
55.7° N Copenhagen
At art school in London there was a girl from Copenhagen who studied graphic design.
45.5° N Milan
As a student, the roof of the Duomo one cold winter: the whole city was there.
55.9° N Edinburgh
A city known mostly from the train, on the way north to Perth to fish for salmon.

Working notes

For every issue, a record of what was chosen, what was dropped, and why.

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