Katsuya Kamo - Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist

[Spacemiu]

I think he is brilliant, he is really my favorite
He does makeup& hair.


For Undercover

 

[Spacemiu]

style.com

 

[travolta]

wow..those are some of my favorite looks! thank you for the topic..i absolutely love the watanabe stuff..impossible to imagine the collections without his influence! i like this a lot...

 

[travolta]

did he do the last watanabe collections? do you know where there is more info?

 

[Estella*]

very beautiful, thanks spacemiu!
i especially like the watanabe looks.
did he also create make up and hair for the last undercover collection, these felt hats that looked like hair (i have no idea if they fell under hair or clothes)?? i absolutely loved those

 

[czilla]

For Undercover

Everything is stunning Thanks so much Spacemiu, travolta... Gosh, and I thought replicating my previous favorite runway hairstyle favorite -- the tattered fishtail braids -- was difficult.. <g> Thanks for giving me smthing else to shoot for!

 

[SanDiego]

I dont know if Im that impressed? I think it looks good though, I would like to see more diversity

 

[sofialuv]

The hair is absolutely amazing!!!!

 

[arlekindearrabal]

his work for watanabe is astounding! id always wandered who did those... thx

 

[sssanguine]

AHH! Genius! I love it. I love it. It's so hauntingly good, it almost scares me. I love the braids with the string of beads draping down, so beautiful. Would definetely love to sport that look. The twisted locks look with that delicate net of hair everywhere in post #2 is so beautiful yet creepy as well as it looks like a hair model of her brain. Absolutely loved all the pictures in post #3, very elaborate hair charms...think it will catch on?

 

[maarit]

wow, very impressive! Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard of him

 

[mishahoi]

theyre all beautiful , but some of those are especially astounding. i like the one with all the square boxes on it ~ and the ones where they girls look like cousin It..

 

[butbeautiful]

amazing! thanks for this thread!

 

[meowmix]

very impressive... his work are like sculptures... very larger than life. thanks for posting, everyone!

 

[Estella*]

http://www.modshair.co.jp/atelier/kamo/kamo_works_1.htm

 

[MulletProof]

stunning. some of my favorite styles in there.

great link, anna.

i cant believe i hadnt seen this thread before.

 

[shirleebee]

bump.

he did the hats at Chanel

 

[La bordélique]

^ Haha. I thought they outshone the clothes.

 

[shirleebee]

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
TURNING JAPANESE

by Colleen Nika

For his Spring 2009 Chanel couture collection, Karl Lagerfeld looked East: But while his stunning, sculptural white-on-white dresses were marvels of geometry, it was Tokyo-based milliner and avant-garde hairstylist Katsuya Kamo who brought Karl's "wearable origami" fantasy to life with custom-made, medium-defying paper-cut out headpieces. Amazingly, Kamo, whose signature hats and wigs have capped off countless editorials and the runways of Margiela and Wutanabe, spent a mere three weeks in preparation for the show, flanked only by a crew of seven loyal helpers and a few dozen sheets of standard 11x7 paper. From those humble utilitarian roots sprang the floral "crownpieces" of Chanel's collection: veritable paper cornucopias of roses, fronds, feathers, even twigs, all of which Kamo painstakingly manipulated onto twisted, towering tiaras. While Karl is the ambitious conceptualist behind his great "Japonaise" haute papier experiment, it was Kamo's innate tactility and incisive execution that electrified a collection that otherwise could be defined by sterile restraint. It made us ask: what is the value of paper, anyway? In response, Karl and Kamo explored two extremes: while the price of couture Chanel can run easily into the hundreds of thousands; but Kamo's head-pieces de resistance are, ironically, unprocurable.

 

[BerlinRocks]

anybody knows if he did the SS09 show ?

while i'm here ....
- FYI : you can view bigger images of the Vogue Homme Japan on nicola formichetti's or VH Japan's blogs -
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