Actually, a few years after we met, someone approached me and said, ``Let's do something next time.'' Since it was so sudden, I just emailed him and said I would consider it.

There was a time when I was interested in a project where I could make clothes that I liked with people I thought were good without drawing. I've actually done it several times. I think that sometimes when I feel like making something like that, I honestly thought I'd like to try it and approached him.

At that time, I was really nervous (lol)

At that time, I even thought about opening a shop. I'm not in that mode right now, but I'd like to do it again when the wave comes.

I think Noritake really likes fashion, but have you ever been interviewed about fashion-related topics in the past?

I'm very interested in fashion. But we never talked about fashion.

That's right. Have you always loved clothes?

Going back to when I was in high school, there was a boom in second-hand clothes, and I loved second-hand clothes from Europe. When I moved to Tokyo, I enrolled in the Setsu Mode Seminar where I could study illustration, and I had a lot of friends who were also attending fashion school at the same time, so that had an influence on me. The school's president, fashion illustrator Setsu Nagasawa, personified the idea of ​​``living lightly.'' My interest in attitude and fashion deepened. At the time, I didn't have much money, so I looked for clothes at the Meiji Park flea market and had fun even though I didn't have to spend a lot of money. After that experience, I began to prefer a simple style that was sometimes called normcore. Later, after becoming an illustrator, I received more offers from apparel companies through my drawings, and my interest in fashion began to branch out. I receive information about many exhibitions, so I try to go as many as possible. Looking at fabrics and sewing can sometimes feel like looking at an exhibit at an art museum. The experience of wearing it is also fun.

The interesting thing about fashion is that even if you draw similar pictures and patterns, there will be a difference between clothes made by a naughty person and clothes made by an elegant person. There will be people.

Different tools and different people make different choices appear in the collection. It's fun and educational to see different brands.