HAPPY VICTIMS AND VERY DEDICATED FOLLOWERS OF FASHION. KYOICHI TSUZUKI'S BOOK OF OBSESSIVE COLLECTORS OF SINGLE DESIGNERS HAS BEEN

ELUDING US FOR TOO LONG.

IT IS HERE AND NOW

THOUGH. TWO COPIES TOO!

Kyoichi Tsuzuki, the writer / photographer whose nineties superbook Tokyo Style is forever sold out on IDEA and whose lesser known but very, very good Roadside Japan is secretly here. 

And then there is Happy Victims. The book you are looking at now. Japanese people with their quite vast single designer clothing collections. 
 

It is both a fashion book and an interiors book with many of the photographs resulting in uniquely telling portraits. The people really do reflect the designers they collect. Like, of course, this man and his Helmut Lang and how else could you ever present such an abundance of minimalism? 
 

The collectors themselves are not always featured. Sometimes there is simply no room for them in the small rooms crammed with clothing. This a proper mess of Margiela! 
 

That's a lot of Comme in a very small home! 
 

This tatami room closet holds a small selection of one woman's Jean Paul Gaultier collection. Her husband told her for the money she'd spent on JPG they could have built a house. But they already have a beautiful home - stuffed with clothes. 
 

Not a mess of Margiela - a very orderly presentation of a seriously big collection. Save for underwear (if only Margiela made it), he has no other clothes. A complete MMM way of life. 

There are 80+ brands and collectors in the book; Katharine Hamnett, Alexander McQueen, Undercover, Tom Ford, Cosmic Wonder, X-Girl, Christopher Nemeth, Vivienne Westwood. 

Happy Victims was published in 2008. Then it disappeared. As is the way. And now we have two copies. As is also the way. 

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