Kazuki Kuraishi Interview @ The Brilliance

The Brilliance is back with another insightful summer interview! This time they caught up with Kazuki Kuraishi, designer for infamous Japanese design/fashion house Fragment. Kazuki Kuraishi a freelance designer in his own right is also known as an integral part of Fragment, which is seated among the most respected entities in niche design culture and street fashion. The name, the logo, embody that sense of cutting through air because their rationale is just as sharp. If you’re not familiar, you should be. Read up!

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The Brilliance is back with another insightful summer interview! This time they caught up with Kazuki Kuraishi, designer for infamous Japanese design/fashion house Fragment.

Kazuki Kuraishi a freelance designer in his own right is also known as an integral part of Fragment, which is seated among the most respected entities in niche design culture and street fashion. The name, the logo, embody that sense of cutting through air because their rationale is just as sharp.

If you’re not familiar, you should be. Read up!

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