Architecture, interior and fashion

Yuichiro Noguchi
Aug 26
4 min read

There was a time when building a house in Japan was originally a carpenter's job, and it was said that architects who worked on houses were lowly. Nowadays, many architects have been involved in building houses in collaboration with construction companies.

Architects and designers think about architectural design, but the interior is often decided after a meeting with the interior coordinator, such as finishing floors and walls, but in most cases, it is from the showroom or catalog. It's like the iant chooses what he likes and decides.

From the point of view of building a house, architects, designers, and construction companies naturally bias their budgets towards the building itself. Unless it is an extra luxurious house that is called a residence, it may be a disadvantage due to this system that there is no budget or interest in the interior.

There is a job called an interior designer in the world, but unfortunately, interior designers are not often involved in housing in Japan, where new construction supremacy is common.

When it comes to projects that require interior designers, it is mainly commercial facilities such as stores and hotels, but in small shops that do not have much budget, the interior itself cannot be done in the first place. For some reason, there is a lot of body appearance in the interior of small stores, but in fact, such a background is influenced. This trend is most noticeable in housing, and the fact that body embodiment has been adopted in many apartment renovations in recent years can be said to be the best example of this.

However, if you look abroad, the situation will change a little. Second-hand renovations are common in European and American houses, so interest in interiors naturally increases. DIY is also popular, and various building materials are sold to the general public at home centers, and there are quite a variety of types. That's why we create your favorite interior as if you were choosing clothes.

In Japan, interiors without a sense of life are preferred, such as model rooms and hotels, while overseas houses are very different that express the personality of the person. Even if there are many things, the interior that can feel the personality of the person should be more attractive from the point of view of others.

Westerners attach importance to identity, but Japanese people value personality. Just as Japan and Europe and the United States have different awareness of fashion, interiors are also very different.

Fashion and interior have many things in common, and they are consistent not only in terms of functionality but also in pursuit of individuality.

It is said that women and neutral people are more sensitive to fashion, but those who are interested in interiors are also the same. In the case of architects, there are many men, but when it comes to interior designers, I feel that the proportion of women is high. There is a similar tendency for interior designers and fashion designers, and there is also the impression that interior designers are more fashionable than architects.

Women are more interested in more familiar things such as fashion and interiors than men, and men tend to focus on authority rather than sensibility, while women emphasize sensibility such as comfort and comfort.

As reflected in the relationship between Le Corbusier, the great French architect, and Irene Gray, the pioneer of female architects, its authoritarian values are reflected in the position of interior designers and the quality and abundance of the interior space. I don't think you can deny that it affects the ukasa.

It is said that Japanese interiors are decades behind that of Europe and the United States, but the Japanese fashion business has become a large mass since the 90s. Before that, the fashion market was mainly women, but the role played by male fashion brands in the fashion market in the 90s was great, and there are many brands and designers who are now active on a global scale. It is.

I look at the aforementioned body-presented interior design, and I remember the time when fashions such as Haynes' white T-shirts and Levi's 501, which were once popular in the 1980s, were popular.

In the 80s, there was a unisex DC brand boom led by Comme des Garçons, and before that, women's addictive values began to change in fashion, and the aforementioned Amekaji boom, which became popular after that, was the previous fashion bra. The extremely simple style, which stripped off unnecessary decorations, which was the exact opposite of Ndo, influenced not only men but also women's fashion at that time. Japanese fashion, which grew in the 90s under the influence of various cultures and subcultures around the world, is now collaborating with Japanese fashion designers even by Louis Vuitton.

Japanese interiors have long been said to have been decades behind compared to overseas, but as young people at that time, including me, grew older and their interests shifted from fashion to interiors, the market changed greatly from now on. Isn't it inevitable to go?