Style Resume Saito Hisao #02

When I was around the end of my 16th year, a few of my close seniors would hang out at a cafe called Victoria in the basement of the American Pharmacy in Hibiya, and even though I didn't know anything about it, I would go there with them and listen to their stories.

These seniors were fashionable but bad people, picking up girls who looked like they had money and getting them to buy the clothes they wanted. Seeing them like that, I began to feel that "these people look cool but their way of life is not cool." At that time, I happened to come into contact with the Miyuki-zoku of Ginza through an acquaintance.

Unlike the people in Hibiya, the Miyuki-zoku were frivolous and extremely kind to girls. I happened to meet Sosuke Oguri (fashion designer) and Katsuhiko Kitamura (stylist) who were in the Miyuki-zoku, and later met people who happened to be in the same class at vocational school, and from then on I mainly associated with them.

My hang-out spot back then was Ginza, and later in the night I'd go to Akasaka or Roppongi. I often went to "George" near the old Defense Agency, where the jukebox music was the latest. Oguri's family home was in Yotsuya Samoncho, and when I wasn't getting any attention from girls in Roppongi, I'd walk back to Oguri's house and stay the night. It was around this time that I saw Take-sensei (Kikuchi Takeo, fashion designer) at "The Other" in Shinjuku. He was wearing a suit and nice shoes, and he really caught my eye.