With its playful residents, Tokyo is a city predistined for nurturing the most unique and outstanding looks – not only fashion-wise, but also when it comes to hair. At the forefront of this colorful and vibrant evolution are Nanako and Sachi, two hair stylists working at one of the most famed hair salons, Shima, in the centre of the Harajuku district. As much influenced by their neighborhood as by their costumers, Nanako and Sachi are looking to merge what is going on in their heads as tightly as possible with what happens on the heads around them, once again proving that the most immediate display of your personality still comes with fashion and styling.
Traveling through Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Seoul in the summer of 2017 and exploring each city’s vibrant underground scene, audio-visual agency deadHYPE captured a series of intimate dialogues they had with the creative minds they encountered – see all videos uncovering Asia’s underground here.
