Akio Hasegawa's interview series "Don't Work Seriously!!" Vol.04 ZORN Part 1

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.04 ZORN 前編

2025.10.30

Photo： Seishi Shirakawa

Styling： Akio Hasegawa

Edit： Ryo Komuta

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This is a series of articles in which fashion director and stylist Akio Hasegawa has serious conversations with experts from various fields about their work. This time, his partner is rapper ZORN. In the summer of 2025, 80 years after the end of the war, ZORN will release his song "War and Girls," which gave him the opportunity to learn about and experience war once again. We headed to Hiroshima with ZORN. This article will be delivered in three parts: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

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 served as the fashion director of the magazine "POPEYE" from 2012 to the fall of 2018. In 2019, he will launch the fashion web magazine "AH.H" in collaboration with Houyhnhnm, and in 2023, "CAHLUMN" and "andreM hoffwann".

ZORN

Born in 1989. A rapper from Shinkoiwa, Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.
Instagram: @ZORN
Twitter: @__ZORN__
Official Fanclub: Chii Out Club

*The first half of the interview is published on " AH.H. "

ZORN

By the way, is it okay if we don't talk about fashion in this interview? I think everyone wants to hear about that sort of thing, Hase-san.

Hasegawa

I wonder.

ZORN

I think the writings on Hase's Instagram are on a paid level. Hase's writings don't just cover clothes, they also capture his entire life. It makes me want to buy something amazing.

Hasegawa

As I get older, my perspective has changed. Like politics, for example. In fact, live coverage of the Diet and posts of extreme political comments on social media are similar to the excitement of popular movies and dramas, and they are issues that connect to real life, so it would be strange if people weren't interested in them. I don't think there is a better story in the world than that. But I think if I talk about it too much, it gets complicated, so I think it's better to keep it to a moderate level. But people are so uninterested, and if people aren't interested in such things, I think Japan is in quite a dangerous place.

ZORN

You've been saying that a lot lately.

Hasegawa

I mean, regardless of myself, I wonder what will happen to the younger generation when they grow up.

ZORN

That's true. I think it might feel different once you have children. By the way, are you interested in fashion now?

Hasegawa

Yes, there are. I'm completely immersed in fashion after all. I get into politics as a way to kill time. Also, how should I put it, when I look at fashion today, there are a lot of things that make me feel a bit strange.

ZORN

I'd like to hear that story.