Title: FRUITS Magazine, the end.

Exhibition dates: January 19-28, 2018

Opening reception: Friday January 19th, 5-10pm

Exhibition hours: Tuesday to Sunday 12-6pm. Closed Monday.

Curated by: Rafi Ghanaghounian

Location: 156 Projects, 156 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto.

Contact for private viewing and other details: info@keep6.ca

We are very excited to bring you the only signed limited edition photographs of Shoichi Aoki. Founder of FRUITS, STREET and TUNE magazine!

About the Exhibit:

FRUITS magazine highlighted the creative expression of disenfranchised, rebellious youths that display their ideologies, affiliations and identities through their clothes. A celebration of liberation and creativity. Which later was to become the Harajuku style. Introducing the world to Harajuku's street culture.

In 2017, Shoichi Aoki announced that he would be shutting down all his magazines FRUITS, STREET and TUNE. Due to the rise of disposable fashion and chains of retailers such as UNIQLO, H&M etc. combined with economical conditions, resulted in the decline of creativity and inspiration seen on the streets globally.

Shoichi Aoki has captured the many styles that pass on the streets of Tokyo for the last twenty years. His photographs document the evolution of Tokyo street fashion, and his images have been published in the book FRUITS (2001 PHADION) which sent shockwaves around the globe!

As Aoki says, “My interest in fashion stems from the way people express themselves through the
clothes they wear. It doesn’t matter what kind of clothes individual designers make. What is important is one’s thoughts and abilities to express them, one’s life and its relationship to the environment. When such elements are combined, they create a sculpture. This sculpture I call street fashion.”