Akio Hasegawa's interview series "Don't work seriously!! (tentative title) Vol.02 Toshiyuki Tsai Part 2

長谷川昭雄の対談連載まじめに働いてんじゃねーよ!!(仮) Vol.02 蔡俊行後編

2024.12.26

Photo：Seishi Shirakawa (Main)

Edit：Ryo Komuta

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This is a serial project in which fashion director and stylist Akio Hasegawa has serious conversations with experts from various fields about their work. His second partner is Toshiyuki Tsai, editor-in-chief of our website "Commune H" and CEO of Rhino Co., Ltd., which runs "HOUYHNHNM". The conversation was lively, ranging from old stories about the magazine "POPEYE", a common topic, to the latest about print media.

PROFILE

Akio Hasegawa

Fashion director and stylist. He has been involved in the production of the British magazine "MONOCLE" since its launch and built the foundation for its fashion pages. In 2014, he became the magazine's fashion director. He also served as the fashion director of the magazine "Popeye" from 2012 to the fall of 2018. In 2019, he launched the fashion web magazine "AH.H" in collaboration with Houyhnhnm.

Tsai Toshiyuki

Editor. Editor-in-chief of "Commune H", publisher and general editor-in-chief of "HOUYHNHNM". Representative of Rhino Co., Ltd.

The talk took place at "ØC Tokyo," a restaurant that Hasegawa-san has been frequenting recently. The talk lasted more than four hours, over a beautiful vegetable-focused course meal and delicious natural wine.

Houyhnhnm

I'd like to hear more about the New England edition of POPEYE.

蔡

(While flicking through the pages) That's right, the location for the film is an island called Martha's Vineyard. You get there by ferry from Cape Cod, and one of the reasons I planned the film is because I wanted to go there (laughs).

Hasegawa

What happened to the model girls?

蔡

I auditioned in New York.

Hasegawa

I see. But you can't take them from Japan, right?

蔡

By the way, the person who coordinated this was Tanabe Ryota .

Hasegawa

During this period, you were the coordinator for the New York location shooting of "POPEYE."

蔡

That's right. That was the first time I met Ryota. Apparently Yoshio Suzuki had worked with Ryota a few times before that. Ryota and I are the same age and we got along well, and we're still friends today. At the time, I think he was working on not only POPEYE, but most of the magazines from Magazine House.

Hasegawa

Do you usually go to New York?

蔡

That's right. On the East Coast, there was Ryota, and on the West Coast, there was someone called Kazoo. I think those two were the ones who were in charge of coordination. Now that I think about it, I had a stylist called Yamashita Rika-chan accompany me on location as an assistant. She was a former stylist for Olive. She was living in New York at the time. I think she was introduced to me through Yoshio-san.

Houyhnhnm

The photographer for the fashion visuals is Murabayashi (Masao).

蔡

He was a company photographer at the time. He was a difficult guy (lol), but the photos he took were great.

Hasegawa

The photos taken by company photographers from this era are truly amazing.

蔡

Yeah. It's good.

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